On 2006 Jun 1 , at 00.39, Malcolm J. Currie wrote:
> Is there a reason why installed examples associated with documents
> reside in tar files within examples/ rather than in their own
> sub-directories, or was this merely an arbitrary arrangement made by
> Norman in SSN/78?
The implications to this effect in SSN/78 probably come partly from
my practice in SC/3, the makefile for which I inherited, and which
happened to do things this way, and partly from SC/13, which has a
quite intricate examples suite, with an independent configure.ac and
Makefile.am (building the examples requires you to work out the
machine bytesex and some compiler options (messily -- it's no paragon)).
Since these were the only two cookbooks I was responsible for I
suppose I ended up making that way look `normal'. Certainly I don't
recall any discussion about it, nor do I have any particular opinions
about which is the best way to do this.
Someone's now going to point to a big document about writing
cookbooks, which I'm not sure I read with the devout attention it
surely deserved.
> examples/sc5/data
> data/flats
> data/bias
> scripts
>
> as was previously the structure, and such paths are often given
> explicitly in the Cookbooks and Guides.
This sounds like a good plan.
See you,
Norman
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