Re: Where to distribute auxiliary data files?

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 08/19/2014 11:48 AM, Rik wrote:
> On 08/19/2014 08:51 AM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> > On 08/18/2014 04:29 PM, Rik wrote:
> > > 8/18/14
> > >
> > > Matlab comes with a number of data files which they use repeatedly in their
> > > documentation.  Some of the data sources are freely available.  One of
> > > these is the 3-D data for a penny which comes from NIST.  This file has
> > > been made available to Octave, but where should it be placed?
> > >
> > > Possible choices:
> > > 1) examples/ directory.  Currently this holds only code samples for the
> > > External Code Interface (.oct, .mex files)
> >
> > "examples" gets one's attention, but it is sort of too broad and
> > encompassing.
> >
> > Then again, I'm not sure how builders think of these .oct and .mex
> > files.  Say someone has a patch which contains a set of .oct or .mex
> > files.  Might they put them in the "examples" directory?
> I was thinking of subdividing the examples/ directory into
>
> examples/code
> examples/data
>
> and exporting the contents of the data directory to $OCTDATADIR during
> installation.

The installation is prior to what the package maintainers archive so 
that the data goes along with the binaries?  Sounds fine.

Dan