+1 for tests ? questionable for examples I think our audience for binary installs are still people trying out nupic, so providing them out-of-the box experience. More advanced users, like ppl installing on embedded etc can remove the extra files.
my 2c On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 8:37 PM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > Michael, that's a great viewpoint. Most of all, I want whoever > downloads and installs NuPIC to build successful applications with it. > They will definitely be better prepared to do this if they can run > sample applications immediately. > --------- > Matt Taylor > OS Community Flag-Bearer > Numenta > > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Michael Klachko > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Matt, I think the first question should be "who is your target audience?" > > Who are your most valuable users? Developers, neuroscientists, ML > > researchers? Then you should ask "What do I want those users to do with > the > > code?" Modify it? Extend it? Just run the existing experiments? Create > new > > experiments? > > > > Answering "everyone", and "everything" is usually not the best strategy > for > > product development. > > > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Hello NuPIC, > >> > >> Looking for opinions here. Austin and I were discussing whether to > >> include tests and sample applications in the NuPIC binaries [1], so > >> when people install via "pip install nupic", they can run tests and > >> sample apps like hotgym without having to clone the source code. > >> > >> What do you think? Do tests and sample apps deserve to be a part of > >> the NuPIC binary package? > >> > >> [1] https://github.com/numenta/nupic/issues/1920 > >> > >> Thanks, > >> --------- > >> Matt Taylor > >> OS Community Flag-Bearer > >> Numenta > >> > > > > -- Marek Otahal :o)
