#17219: Automatically built catalogs
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       Reporter:  nthiery      |        Owner:
           Type:  enhancement  |       Status:  new
       Priority:  major        |    Milestone:  sage-6.4
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Comment (by nthiery):

 Replying to [comment:2 vbraun]:
 > Not every parent is necessarily intended for the end user, there are
 base classes and / or internal implementations. Whats the plan for dealing
 with that?

 A priori no specific plan: the purpose is to be exhaustive. Something
 like, for e.g. abstract classes the Java standard library API, exhaustive
 lists of "all implementations".

 > Making it simpler to have a catalog is of course good, but IMHO it
 requires human judgement for what to include.

 Definitely: nothing beats a human to highlight the important classes
 (although we could dream of a system that would automatically gather data
 from Sage's usage by all users, and automatically learn from that, but
 that's for later :-)). So, indeed, where we have the manpower, it's good
 to have manually built indexes. But they could focus on the piece
 requiring human judgement, and refer to the automaticaly generated ones
 for exhaustivity. And everywhere else the automatic index are better than
 nothing.

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