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) ;-)

-- 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 ...

Cheers, Marcel On 06/28/2011 10:05 PM, Greg Von Kuster wrote: > Hello Marcel, > > Thanks for your message - see my inline comments below. > > On Jun 28, 2011, at 5:55 AM, Marcel Schumann wrote: > >> 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. > > >> -- 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. > > >> -- 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. > > >> >> 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. > > >> -- 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. > > >> -- 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! > > >> >> >> 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(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de > > Greg Von Kuster > Galaxy Development Team > greg(a)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(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de