Download refactor blog post

[ErikDanielsson]

Added a blog post describing the changes made to the nf-core pipelines download command in nf-core/tools#3634 and related PRs. Once this is ready we should be able to merge the tool PRs.

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[mirpedrol]

Added a couple of comments, but otherwise looks good!

[MatthiasZepper]

Wouldn't that be a nicer image?

[ErikDanielsson]

Wouldn't that be a nicer image?

I completely forgot about updating the header image, thanks for pointing that out! I'll look into some different ideas, but I might stick with yours

[MatthiasZepper]

I completely forgot about updating the header image, thanks for pointing that out! I'll look into some different ideas, but I might stick with yours

Feel free to pick what you like! I just felt the rocket was a bit boring, since it had been used before and also had not really ties to your PR. Therefore, I quickly searched and found this "pipeline on the move" image, but a container vessel or whatever will certainly also work!

[ErikDanielsson]

Gifs are created with vhs. If anyone is interested in reproducing or tweaking the outputed gifs, here are the corresponding tape files.

Note that I've used the branch in nf-core/tools#3706 to generate the videos, so it shows that the user should use load scripts for Docker and Podman rather than just outputting the Docker load command

Showing fail with old Nextflow version

Output nf-old-demo.gif

Set Framerate 15
Set PlaybackSpeed 1.0 # Make output 2 times faster
Set Shell bash

Set FontSize 30
Set Width 1800
Set Height 900

Type "nf-core pipelines download bamtofastq \"
Sleep 1510ms
Enter 
Tab
Type "--revision 2.2.0 \"
Sleep 1500ms
Enter
Tab
Type "--container-system singularity"

Sleep 1500ms
Enter

Sleep 10s

Showing docker downloads

Output docker-demo.gif

Set Framerate 15
Set PlaybackSpeed 2.0 # Make output 2 times faster
Set Shell bash

Set FontSize 30
Set Width 1800
Set Height 900

Type "nf-core pipelines download bamtofastq \"
Sleep 1510ms
Enter 
Tab
Type "--revision 2.2.0 \"
Sleep 1500ms
Enter
Tab
Type "--container-system docker \"
Sleep 1505ms
Enter
Tab
Type@200ms "--compress none"

Sleep 1500ms
Enter

Sleep 120s

The review comment was addressed by the original PR author by rephrasing how Nextflow inspect finds containers. This change request is blocking