#17818: Interface to FindStat
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Reporter: mantepse | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-6.6
Component: interfaces | Resolution:
Keywords: FindStat | Merged in:
Authors: Martin Rubey | Reviewers:
Report Upstream: N/A | Work issues:
Branch: public/findstat- | Commit:
interface | d21fad39a7d500d98bacc42f901942a3caa46462
Dependencies: | Stopgaps:
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Comment (by vdelecroix):
Hello,
I really do understand neither your strategy nor your goal with this
ticket.
oeis is a Sage completely independent project and we have this ugly parser
because we do not have any choice: there is no API to access their
database.
Findstat project highly uses Sage and you are one of the author. Instead
of integrating findstat code inside Sage you decided to make a closed
source project. Right, this is fine with GPL and this is your choice. Now
you decide to interface your findstat project with Sage. As a consequence
you oblige the user to have an internet access to play with findstat
features. Fine, this is again your choice. Instead of providing a clean
API from the findstat side (let say json answers from http queries) you
chose to implement an ugly HTML parser with regexp to get the information
on the Sage side. This is inefficient and counter productive and you
should seriously revise your strategy.
Vincent
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