[Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

[Laurent Gatto]

On 23 March 2015 10:17, Wolfgang Huber wrote:

> I wonder whether it’d possible to have the website understand URLs like
> 	http://www.bioconductor.org/<pkgname>
>
> This could resolve to 
> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/<pkgname>.html
> or
> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/html/<pkgname>.html
> depending on whether the package was yet released.

That's a great suggestion!

Maybe, there could still be short urls for release and devel pages;
something like

  http://www.bioconductor.org/rel/<pkgname>

and

  http://www.bioconductor.org/dev/<pkgname>


Laurent

> This could be handy in papers or grants that mention packages.
>
> Wolfgang
>
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