how about a tooltip that reads "installation via biocLite() is the recommended approach to Bioconductor software acquisition, other approaches may lead to inconsistent package-sets" that appears when a reader hovers over a tarball. i would imagine that this is how the "wrong package" gets installed, by manually using an inappropriate tarball.
wrong documentation is not so easy but the doc on the devel branch might have a different tooltip cautioning the readers to be sure they want to read the doc on the devel version. On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Julian Gehring <julian.gehr...@embl.de> wrote: > Hi, > > Can we make the package websites for the devel and release version of a > package more distinguishable? > > To elaborate on this: In the past, I have seen several users having > problems with using bioconductor because they ended up on the wrong page > (mostly the devel page when they would have needed the release). This > resulted in getting the wrong documentation or installing the wrong > package. The pages are well designed, and there is no reason to change > this. However, the websites for the devel and release version of a package > look almost identical, and that these two get confused seems to happen to > many users (me included). > > If you search for a package within the bioc website, the release version > always comes first in the search results. If you are coming from the > outside (e.g. google), this may not be the case. In fact, googling a few > packages names often returned only the devel page in the top 10 search > results. > > What are the feelings regarding this? We could add a header section on the > devel page that states that this is an unstable version not meant to be > used in production settings, and provide a link to the respective release > version? > > Best wishes > Julian > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
