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Phil Ewels
05/15/2025, 8:58 PMSome great new Nextflow features announced today at the Boston Summit. We'll get Paolo's talk up online soon, but in the mean time here's a blog post describing some of the new features: https://seqera.io/blog/nextflow-updates-strict-syntax-data-lineage/
ā¢ New syntax parser integrated into the Nextflow CLI
ā¢ Auto-formatting of code and a new
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Jim Downie
05/16/2025, 9:30 AMJust wanted to say thank you for the
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Phil Ewels
05/16/2025, 9:31 AMFantastic, that's great to hear!
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Jim Downie
05/16/2025, 9:35 AMIs there a way to make it print its output in line order? Currently the output jumps around the file which makes stepping through a bit complicated!
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Phil Ewels
05/16/2025, 9:48 AMGood call: if you fancy creating an issue for that on the Nextflow repo, that'd be much appreciated šš»
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Phil Ewels
05/16/2025, 9:48 AMI'd thought previously about grouping errors and warnings, I hadn't really spotted that the source was out of order - I agree that it should be grouped by files and then sorted by line number.
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Jim Downie
05/16/2025, 10:13 AMDone š
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Jim Downie
05/16/2025, 10:13 AMAlso, there doesn't appear to be a
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Phil Ewels
05/16/2025, 10:18 AMIt's
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05/16/2025, 10:18 AMOtherwise you're asking it to lint a file called
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Jim Downie
05/16/2025, 10:18 AMAh!
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Phil Ewels
05/16/2025, 10:19 AMFor future me: https://github.com/nextflow-io/nextflow/issues/6091
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Jim Downie
05/16/2025, 10:20 AMI had tried
nextflow lint --help-helpp
Phil Ewels
05/16/2025, 11:50 AMSingle / double hyphens shakefist
Phil Ewels
06/17/2025, 6:34 AMThis has now been fixed (https://github.com/nextflow-io/nextflow/pull/6098) and released in 25.04.04 - thanks for reporting!
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