#5 Change to archived ensembl

[Nick Kennedy]

This changes the URL for ensembl to sep2011.archive.ensembl.org so that it matches the version used at the time of the release of 1.1.21. This should allow perlprimer to continue to work even if ensembl change the page format of the main site in future.

[Nick Kennedy]

[Charles Plessy]

Thanks for the patch ! Could you or somebody else enhance it by either detecting the latest Ensembl archive, or providing a way to the user for selecting another one ?

Cheers,

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Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

[Nick Kennedy]

Hi,

The issue is that perlprimer currently works by screenscraping the Ensembl
website. This makes the assumption that the website never changes its
format, but unfortunately this is not the case, and every time ensemble
makes a change, perlprimer breaks. To avoid this, I changed the code to
reference a fixed version of Ensembl, but as you've noted this has the side
effect of also fixing the data at the point in time.

Making changes to support the current version of Ensembl would be not too
difficult, but would undoubtedly break again next time they change the
website. The better long term solution is to switch to using the Ensembl
perl API. The main author Owen has indicated he intends to do that at some
point, but I don't know when. I don't myself really have the time to do it
just now.

Kind regards,

Nick Kennedy

From: Charles Plessy [mailto:plessy@users.sf.net]
Sent: 16 May 2013 02:30
To: [perlprimer:patches]
Subject: [perlprimer:patches] #5 Change to archived ensembl

Thanks for the patch ! Could you or somebody else enhance it by either
detecting the latest Ensembl archive, or providing a way to the user for
selecting another one ?

Cheers,

--
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

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[patches:#5] Change to archived ensembl

Status: open
Created: Mon Jun 11, 2012 02:49 PM UTC by Nick Kennedy
Last Updated: Mon Jun 11, 2012 02:49 PM UTC
Owner: nobody

This changes the URL for ensembl to sep2011.archive.ensembl.org so that it
matches the version used at the time of the release of 1.1.21. This should
allow perlprimer to continue to work even if ensembl change the page format
of the main site in future.

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