Hello Marcel, On Jun 28, 2011, at 5:23 PM, Marcel Schumann wrote:

Hi Greg,

Just two small points: -- the new 'detailed description' cannot yet display linebreaks correctly. Looks a little bit confusing this way (for an example, just have a look a the description text I pasted into the field for CADDSuite) ;-)

This issue has been fixed - thanks for pointing it out.

-- just to clarify: I actually meant that it would be very helpful if a version-number in the 'old' style (plain version number, not repository hash key) could be shown as well. This would make it easier for users to understand which release-version of the software is in the toolsuite. But otherwise, as a workaround, I could of course just add a version number to the toolsuite's short-description field ...

Yes, attributes like tool_id, version, etc, fall into the category of repository metadata, a new feature which I am currently implementing. It should be available fairly soon.

Cheers, Marcel

On 06/28/2011 10:05 PM, Greg Von Kuster wrote:

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Hello Marcel,

Thanks for your message - see my inline comments below.

On Jun 28, 2011, at 5:55 AM, Marcel Schumann wrote:

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Hi Greg, hi Dave,

I just uploaded a current version of CADDSuite for MacOS10.6 (in addition to the version for Linux) to the Galaxy tool shed. Thereby I noticed some problems and possible enhancements. I just wanted to let you know about them; I hope this is somewhat helpful ...

Errors/problems: -- If _not_ logged in, clicking on any tool or category will produce "Server error" !

This bug has been corrected - thanks for letting us know about it.

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-- The new hg based tool shed does not display/support any tool(suite) version any more. I know that this was probably done on purpose, but I guess this will very confusing for users. If publicly available/published software has its own version number, it would be very nice if this could also be shown in the tool shed.

Yes, versions are now the repository tip, which is displayed.

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-- The new tool shed also does not show detailed description texts any more (in contrast to the previous tool shed). However, I guess these description text could be very important for potential users who search for tools for their tasks. Guessing what a tool/toolsuite does by just reading the one-line description currently supported by the new tool shed is of course not very easy ;-)

I've added a Detailed description text field for repositories in the tool shed - thanks for requesting this.

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Ideas for enhancements: -- It would be nice to have same kind of download counter

I've added a field that displays the number of times a repository was downloaded using the pop-up menu options. Again, thanks for your request.

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-- some way to enable users to submit feedback or comments would also be great

There is already a Rate repository option on the Repository options pop-up menu. This option allows you to add a 1 - 5 star rating, along with your own Review comments.

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-- last but not least, I think you should really advertise your tool shed on your homepages. On both getgalaxy.org and usegalaxy.org I never saw any link/description of the tool shed, but it really is a nice way to share tools :-)

We'll look into this, thanks!

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Cheers, Marcel

-- Marcel Schumann

University of Tuebingen Wilhelm Schickard Institute for Computer Science Division for Applied Bioinformatics Room C304, Sand 14, D-72076 Tuebingen

phone: +49 (0)7071-29 70437 fax: +49 (0)7071-29 5152 email: schumann@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de

Greg Von Kuster Galaxy Development Team greg@bx.psu.edu

-- Marcel Schumann

University of Tuebingen Wilhelm Schickard Institute for Computer Science Division for Applied Bioinformatics Room C304, Sand 14, D-72076 Tuebingen

phone: +49 (0)7071-29 70437 fax: +49 (0)7071-29 5152 email: schumann@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de

Greg Von Kuster Galaxy Development Team greg@bx.psu.edu