On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Donald Alan Morrison
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Nov 25, 5:24 pm, Tom Boothby <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Two technical solutions:
>>
>> 1) have 'make' download the database.
>> 2) Before we make each release, dump a few gigabytes onto the OEIS
>> wiki, such that what we distribute is well under 5% of their
>> "aggregate content".  (tongue firmly in cheek)
>
> Tom: Not sure where your joke begins and ends, but,

Joke begins and ends with (2).  My first suggestion is serious, though
lacking in detail.  If the user downloads the database themselves,
then we aren't distributing it.  Perhaps putting this in "make" is a
bad idea.  Perhaps the first sloane_find should background a process
to save the database in the user's .sage directory?


>
> A1: If the license says you can't or the stripped version is no longer
> available, that's not an option.
>
> A2: The classic server limited the rate of CGI requests (it took me
> nearly a month to download all the A-Files as a result, even though
> they are small).  I imagine a similar scheme will be in place with the
> wiki.
>
> I think the A&S NIST adaptation (DLMF) is more interesting to pursue.
>
> -Don
>
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