Dirk Reiners wrote: >>>Examples infrastructure needs to be added first. We still haven't quite >>>decided where to put them. One central directory or in the Source? I'd >>>still prefer the source and collecting them for install. >>> >>> >>> >>Why do you want them in the source? What if they need more then one >>source file? An example seems like an application that should stand on >>it's own so I think it should be in its own directory under examples in >>the root. >> >> >> >If it needs more than one source it is too big. I see examples as >feature examples, like a slightly more elaborate version of the tests we >have now. If I want to know how to use a certain feature, I don't want >to have to wade through tons of code to find out how. I would like to >have them focused on demonstrating how to use this one feature and not >be a full app with complex GUI. It would be nice if they had a simple >GUI, but I would probably make a trivial abstraction for that, something >like an extended SSM. I just need to decide which portable GUI toolkit >to use for that, as we will need to include it in the dists. > >I don't have a good name for them, but I would also like to have some >bigger example applications a la perfly or SceneViewer, and those would >be in separate directory hierarchy, but they would not be targeted to >specific features. > > I forgot to ask about the main point of the original question here. Why do you think the source for an example should be in the source tree in a subdir parallel to the class(es) being used? It is just to make it easier on developers that use commandline terminals and editors?
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