do something useful and simple first
Ray Plante
rplante at poplar.ncsa.uiuc.edu
Fri Feb 6 08:56:56 PST 2009
Hi Roy,
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Roy Williams wrote:
> and doesn't give our customers anything that they will value.
I think this mischaracterizes the TAP effort. We have seen from our own
summer schools that OpenSkyQuery is clearly near or at the top of the list
of things people find most valueable. TAP is intended to be a better
OpenSkyNode.
It is also intended to be a better cone search, able to do multi-cones.
More to the point, TAP is meant to be a general foundation that many
capabilities can be built upon. This is understandably harder to do than
a simple cone search or a simple multi-cone search.
Now, it's understandable that you might not want to wait around for TAP to
settle to get a multi-cone capability. And you can argue that it's more
productive to start simple, which is why we have cone search. But we've
also demonstrated that, unless you are really lucky or really smart, it's
hard to go from simple to general without a major rewrite.
I might suggest that if you would like to see a simple multi-cone, perhaps
building on the current cone search, that you draw up a proposal.
cheers,
Ray
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