Sort command-block collected qza/qzv files

[thermokarst]

Current Behavior
It's a little confusing when the itemized list of outputs for a multi-command block aren't presented in the same order as the commands as executed.

References

[jairideout]

👍, this would be clearer than the sorted output. The directive doesn't parse the commands; it only collects the .qza/.qzv files that are created by a block, so it doesn't know what command(s) the files originated from. It might be solved by looking at the last modified timestamp of the files to determine order (we're looking at timestamps already to detect overwritten outputs).

A workaround for now is to split these commands out into separate command blocks.

[gregcaporaso]

A workaround for now is to split these commands out into separate command blocks.

I was thinking that that might just be good practice anyway for this, so that's it's super clear for new users that the commands are independent of each other.

[jairideout]

Sounds good! @gregcaporaso, do you think splitting the commands out is useful for the upcoming release? If so, I can create a separate issue and leave this one open for when we get around to fixing it.

[gregcaporaso]

I don't think it's essential for the next release.

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[jairideout]

Sounds good. Thinking about it more, I created an issue to track this separately (sounds like we'd want both issues resolved at some point): #111

[cherman2]

I am closing this because I think this was fixed. I went through some of our tutorials and was not able to find any occurrences. Please re-open if this issue is still occurring.