Re: [Plplot-devel] x20c.c

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Joao Cardoso wrote:

> On Friday 30 November 2001 17:02, Geoffrey Furnish wrote:

> | I also believe "demos" should be minimalist in their linkage
> | requirements.  But I also believe more extended examples could be
> | valuable.
> |
> | [snip] In my former case mentioned above, I had always
> | sort of wanted to set up something else, a new class of demos or
> | something.  In other words, not call it a demo, but call it a
> | contrib/example/XYZ, or something.
>
> Yes, of course! I think that this is the solution!
>

I agree with the important distinction that Geoffrey has drawn between
simple demos and extended examples that may include dependencies on
non-plplot libraries.  And I agree with having the latter in a separate
directory. However, I don't like the name contrib/example because the
implication of "contrib" is it was contributed from outside the plplot
group, and we don't maintain it or have anything to do with it. So the name
I propose is plplot/extended_examples, instead. I don't think we are going
to have a lot of extended examples so I propose *not* to divide up
plplot/extended_examples into various sub-directories for each of the
front-ends like plplot/examples is divided up at the present moment.

Directory and file names are always a pain to change in CVS so I will give
you a chance to think about the name I have proposed and the flat directory
structure below it before I commit anything to CVS tomorrow.

Alan

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