#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 VivianePons):
To answer a bit what has been said here. I do agree that it would be
better to provide a proper API on the FindStat side, that was my idea at
first. But, it's not that easy, we're not that many, and nobody did it! On
the other hand, Martin wanted the Sage interface because he needed it. And
the dirty html parsing was the quickest way to get it. Even if it's not
perfect, I still think it could be useful for other people, that's why he
created the ticket.
If you want more of a technical reason: at this stage, FindStat is no more
than a customized MoinMoin macro. Especially, we don't really deal with
the http request: we just take some info from MoinMoin and give some html
back to be included in a MoinMoin html page, we have no interface to deal
with non html responses.
For similar reasons, I don't see how to include the FindStat search
directly into Sage at the moment, it demands lots of work. I'm not saying
it's never going to happen, but probably not just right now.
About open-sourceness, the main reasons it's not been open yet are mostly
time and technical issues. FindStat is not a software, it's a webservice.
In the meantime, we've welcomed anyone wanting to work on the project!
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