Hi, concerning database_sloane_oeis, this is not only about the missing SPKG.txt, here is how i understand the current situation:
The spkg database_sloane_oeis-2005-12.spkg contains sloane-oeis.bz2 which corresponds to (an old version of) http://oeis.org/classic/stripped.gz that contains the first terms of each sequence, up to A095795. This is useful to do a lot of automatically off-line searches, therefore not flooding the OEIS server. When you do: sage: SloaneEncyclopedia.install() you get both http://oeis.org/classic/stripped.gz AND http://oeis.org/classic/names.gz that contains the names of each sequence. If you first installed database_sloane_oeis-2005-12.spkg, you will get: sage: SloaneEncyclopedia.install() IOError: Sloane encyclopedia is already installed But there is only "half" of the data: the association sequence:number provided by sloane-oeis.bz2, but not the association number:name provided by names.gz. Indeed: sage: SloaneEncyclopedia.sequence_name(6540) IOError: The Sloane OEIS names file is not installed. Try reinstalling, e.g. SloaneEncyclopedia.install(overwrite=True). The first advantage of stripped.gz over sloane-oeis.bz2 shipped with the spkg it that it contains sequences up to A233540, that is more than twice as much as sloane-oeis.bz2 The second advantage is that there have been licensing clarifications meanwhile. In particular, stripped.gz contains a header that explicitely refers to "OEIS End-User License: http://oeis.org/LICENSE";, which is "Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 3.0 license". The advantage of database_sloane_oeis over SloaneEncyclopedia.install() are: - you can automatically include it in a Sage binary with "sage -i". - this ressource remains available when oeis.org server is down. To sum up, i am not opposed in removing the undocumented and incomplete database_sloane_oeis spkg if this eases git transition (as proposed in #14962), but i i do not agree with removing it for good. Instead, we should: - update it with BOTH http://oeis.org/classic/stripped.gz and http://oeis.org/classic/names.gz - add the new CC-by-nc license to the spkg doc. - rename it database_oeis (according to the new website oeis.org, and the new OEIS class in Sage that will eventually provide SloaneEncyclopedia). I can take care about such a spkg. But i guess i should wait the git workflow to avoid useless migration. By the way, here is a possible SPKG.txt: --------------------------------------------------------------------- = database_oeis = == Description == This package provides sequences and names of the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) for off-line searches using the SloaneEncyclopedia class. You should use it instead of on-line searches (provided by Sage oeis module) if you plan to do a lot of automatic queries, therefore not flooding the OEIS server. == License == The OEIS is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 3.0 license. To satisfy the attribution requirements of that license (section 4(c)), attributions should credit The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences and provide a URL to the main page http://oeis.org/ or to a specific sequence (e.g. http://oeis.org/A000108). Commercial uses may be licensed by special arrangement with the OEIS Foundation Inc.. == SPKG Maintainers == * Thierry Monteil == Upstream Contact == * http://oeis.org/ * http://oeis.org/wiki/Editorial_Board == Dependencies == None == Special Update/Build Instructions == Download the files * http://oeis.org/classic/stripped.gz * http://oeis.org/classic/names.gz into the ???/ directory (???/ to be updated with the git workflow). -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ciao, Thierry -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
