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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Gary Poster <gary.poster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Nov 22, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Aaron Bentley wrote:
...
>> (In fact, Robert has
>> suggested that Launchpad itself should actually use the web API, which
>> would make the developer API identical to the web API.)
>
> I've heard this, and was interested in it.  I'm now pretty skeptical that this is reasonable.  Transactions, for instance, are very useful in a database.  They can be exposed in a webservice, but are not natural for it.

I don't get the scepticism. They are still part of some over-arching
operation, and that operation can be exposed as a remotely-accessible
API.

jml