[Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

[Gabe Becker]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Fischer, Bernd <
b.fischer at dkfz-heidelberg.de> wrote:

>
> During the production process of the paper we want to link to the
> accompanying
> BioC package that is in devel, but not yet in release. Before the first
> release, the
> link (e.g. www.bioconductor.org/<packagename>) should go to the devel
> version
> (maybe with an additional warning that it is only available in devel),
> before the
> first release of the package and should go to release afterwards.
>

I understand the appeal of this, but decoupling publications from the
actual, exact versions they discuss or use seems like a relatively large
step backwards in terms of reproducibility. At the very least, I think
there is some nuance here that warrants careful consideration before we
adopt a single-silently-changing-link-per-package paradigm.

~G




>
> Bernd
>
>
> > On 23.03.2015, at 11:45, Sean Davis <seandavi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Just so we don't lose the thoughts that have come before, here is a link
> to
> > a similar proposal from last year.
> >
> > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2014-February/005292.html
> >
> > Sean
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 6:17 AM, Wolfgang Huber <whuber at embl.de> 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.
> >>
> >> This could be handy in papers or grants that mention packages.
> >>
> >> Wolfgang
> >>
> >>
> >> ----
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> >> European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
> >> Heidelberg, Germany
> >>
> >> T +49-6221-3878823
> >> wolfgang.huber at embl.de
> >> http://www.huber.embl.de
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-- 
Gabriel Becker, Ph.D
Computational Biologist
Genentech Research

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