On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Pierre Pericard <pierre.pericard@sb-roscoff.fr> wrote:
If I'm not mistaking, Composite Datatypes allow for only one directory, whereas we need to keep a constant directory structure with 2 or more sub-directories containing our input files.
I'm not sure if that is true - the example of HTML output with images comes to mind as a common use-case where subfolder(s) would be expected. I've only had limited first hand experience with Galaxy's composite datatypes myself though.
We have no way to change these tools behavior (obviously not Galaxy-friendly ;-) ) and therefore need to maintain this structure in the job working directory.
Perhaps a tool wrapper could create a dummy folder using symlinks (faster and less wasted disk than copying files), but that isn't ideal. Peter