On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Greg Von Kuster <greg@bx.psu.edu> wrote:
Hello Peter,
In addition to the fixes I've commented on inline below, I've also added a new rout for specified repository revisions. So the following citable URLs are now supported in the test tool shed. These fixes and enhancements will not be available on the main Galaxy tool shed until the next Galaxy release.
http://testtoolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/view/peterjc/ http://testtoolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/view/peterjc/fasta_filter_by_id http://testtoolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/view/peterjc/fasta_filter_by_id/66e2e0f16c...
Lovely - by the way the fasta_filter_by_id tool was replaced by this more general tool: http://testtoolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/view/peterjc/seq_filter_by_id or in the main shed: http://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/view/peterjc/seq_filter_by_id
I've noticed one oddity, which is if I go one of the citable URLs like http://testtoolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/view/peterjc/mira_assembler and then browse away to another section/repository/etc the URL in the browser's address bar does not update. You can be looking at repository B, but the address bar URL still says repository A. (This was one reason I stuck a redirect in my prototype).
Do you think this going to be easy to fix, or should we revert to the redirect trick to avoid this 'stale' URL problem?
This behavior has been fixed in change set revision 8802:7ccddea80a25 which is currently running on the test Galaxy tool shed.
Thanks
Separately, but perhaps related, it would be nice if via the search or otherwise, the new URLs were automatically used - that would be slightly easier than copying it from the text of the page.
This one is tricky and may have to wait until we eliminate the Galaxy iframes. If I can figure out a way to make this work before that, i certainly will. I've created a separate Trello card for this.
https://trello.com/card/toolshed-nice-citable-urls-for-galaxy-tool-shed-repo...
Great.
However, this is already functional enough to start sharing direct links. Once this goes live, you'll have to brief the whoever writes the new tool alerts for Twitter to use it :)
I look forward to seeing the first tweets links straight to a tool shed repository :) In fact we can start using these URLs in links to dependencies on other repositories as well. Thanks Greg for doing this so promptly, Peter