[Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?

[Robert Castelo]

Thanks Dan.

robert.

On 04/30/2015 05:34 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Robert Castelo"<robert.castelo at upf.edu>
>> To: "Dan Tenenbaum"<dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
>> Cc: bioc-devel at r-project.org
>> Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 12:57:36 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?
>>
>> hi Dan,
>>
>> one question about this, just to know whether this is intentional or
>> should be fixed. i have noticed that these short URLs:
>>
>> www.bioconductor.org/packages/BiocGenerics
>>
>> or
>>
>> bioconductor.org/packages/BiocGenerics
>>
>> resolve to
>>
>> http://master.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/BiocGenerics.html
>>
>> while the page is correct, should not they be resolving to an URL
>> starting with 'www' instead of 'master'? i.e.,
>>
>> www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/BiocGenerics.html
>>
>>
>> this is really minor, but i think it may create confusion when one
>> sees
>> the same page starting with 'www' or 'master'.
>>
>
> 'www' is just an alias, typically any url starting with www should redirect to plain old bioconductor.org.
> I've fixed the redirects so they no longer redirect to master. So
>
>
>   www.bioconductor.org/packages/BiocGenerics
>
>   or
>
>   bioconductor.org/packages/BiocGenerics
>
>   resolves to
>
>   http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/BiocGenerics.html
>
> Dan
>
>
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> robert.
>>
>> On 04/28/2015 08:08 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Wolfgang Huber"<whuber at embl.de>  To:
>>>> bioc-devel at r-project.org Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 3:17:03 AM
>>>> Subject: [Bioc-devel] Short URLs for packages?
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>
>>> We came up with something close to this, but it does include the
>>> /packages/ segment because we think that's important.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://bioconductor.org/packages/BiocGenerics/
>>>
>>> - takes you to the release landing page, unless the package is only
>>> in devel, in which case it takes you to the devel landing page
>>> (which
>>> will contain suitable warnings/instructions about installing the
>>> devel version).
>>>
>>> You can also specify 'devel' or 'release' or a numbered
>>> Bioconductor
>>> version:
>>>
>>> http://bioconductor.org/packages/devel/BiocGenerics/
>>> http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/BiocGenerics/
>>> http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.2/BiocGenerics/
>>> http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.1/BiocGenerics/
>>> http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.0/BiocGenerics/ ...
>>>
>>> (The trailing slashes are optional in all of these).
>>>
>>> These are redirects and not forwards; that is, if you enter one of
>>> these short URLs, it won't remain in your browser's address bar but
>>> will change to one of the longer URLs. So they are sort of
>>> ephemeral
>>> in this way.
>>>
>>> We looked into doing these as forwards (i.e., short URL remains in
>>> address bar, but content from 'long' URL is served), which seems
>>> more
>>> useful, but there were too many problems with that; it breaks
>>> relative URLs and more importantly it breaks our mirrors which do
>>> not
>>> necessarily have the same content root as our web site.
>>>
>>> At any rate, the short URLs can be used in publications and other
>>> sites, and they are useful as a permanent link to the current
>>> release
>>> version of a package. We have added information about these short
>>> URLs to the emails we send to new package developers, so that they
>>> can use them in publications that reference their packages.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Dan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Wolfgang
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---- Wolfgang Huber Principal Investigator, EMBL Senior Scientist
>>>> Genome Biology Unit European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
>>>> Heidelberg, Germany
>>>>
>>>> T +49-6221-3878823 wolfgang.huber at embl.de http://www.huber.embl.de
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Bioc-devel at r-project.org mailing list
>>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
>>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Bioc-devel at r-project.org mailing list
>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
>>
>> --
>> Robert Castelo, PhD
>> Associate Professor
>> Dept. of Experimental and Health Sciences
>> Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
>> Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB)
>> Dr Aiguader 88
>> E-08003 Barcelona, Spain
>> telf: +34.933.160.514
>> fax: +34.933.160.550
>>
>

-- 
Robert Castelo, PhD
Associate Professor
Dept. of Experimental and Health Sciences
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB)
Dr Aiguader 88
E-08003 Barcelona, Spain
telf: +34.933.160.514
fax: +34.933.160.550