Re: [Plplot-devel] x20c.c

[Maurice L. <mj...@ga...>]

Joao Cardoso writes:
 > On Friday 30 November 2001 20:12, Maurice LeBrun wrote:
 > | Alan W. Irwin writes:
 > |  > 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.
 > |
 > | I greatly prefer plplot/examples/extended or something like that.
 > | ...
 > 
 > That's OK for me.  Anyway, it is difficult to antecipate what kind of 
 > subdirectories will be needed.
 > 
 > Of course, if the directory becomes crowed, what I don't think will happen, 
 > it is always possible to move files to subdirectories, as long as the cvs 
 > history is not important, which I don't think will be the case with this kind 
 > of source code.

I envision one subdirectory for each extended (complex) example, since it may
be comprised of multiple files: script code, compiled code, its own makefile,
data files, a readme file, etc.

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Maurice LeBrun    mj...@ga...