Sorry, forgot to include attachment. David
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 6:47 AM, David Mertens <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 6:28 AM, zentara <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:48:42 -0500 >> chm <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >I'll aim to get a reworked TriD chapter by next >> >weekend and then the writeup on the PDL shell(s). >> >> Hi, >> >> Mark Baker, [email protected] >> wants to make a separate TriD Recipes pod. >> >> So what would be a good full name for the pod? >> TriD::Recipes? >> >> I'm wondering, for the reason you mention below. >> >> >Also, maybe we should standardize on a location >> >for the images (maybe a separate subdirectory >> >and naming scheme like img/subdir where subdir >> >is all lowercase version of the POD source file >> >name---to help systems that can't or won't >> >differentiate between case in filenames...). >> > >> >Cheers, >> >Chris >> >> So if we have a pod called TriD::Recipes, I would then >> put, and refer to images, stored in >> imgs/trid::recipes/img01.png, etc, etc? >> >> Also, what about including animated gifs and >> possibly small videos, for the TriD examples? >> Can those be embedded in the html sections? >> >> 0m, >> zentara > > > I don't want to get too far off topic, since this is supposed to be about > the Book, but I don't know that we have ever decided on where we want to > put data. Furthermore, even if we distribute data with PDL, we don't have > an easy way to get at it. As such, I think (1) we should choose a specific > place to put image data and (2) we should create a module for accessing > that data. To give an idea of how this module might look, I've attached a > module I used in a talk I gave about PDL that simplified the access of M51 > for me. > > Getting back to the topic, we cannot do #2 for 2.4.10 since said module > wouldn't be allowed (we're in code freeze). We *can* discuss and agree on a > location where we put images and other data for 2.4.10, and for 2.4.11 we > can create a module or set of modules for accessing that data. > > I'm not sure where we should put images, but I expect > that imgs/trid::recipes/img01.png won't work for Windows, but a minor > variant might: imgs/trid-recipes/img01.png. Where would these images be > installed? I suggest PDL::Data, i.e. > site_perl/<perl-version>/<OS-version>/PDL/Data/TriD/Recipes/img01.png, > which is basically where MakeMake will put it if we tell it to create a > PDL::Data::TriD::Recipes directory. > > David > > -- > Sent via my carrier pigeon. > -- Sent via my carrier pigeon.
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