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On 7 October 2013 15:22, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:
> I like this idea. I've seen this called "extern" in other projects, but I
> don't have a strong feeling about the name. I think it's good idea for all
> of the reasons you mention.
>
OK, 'extern' seems the best directory name. After I've finished the qhull
PR I'll create another one to move the existing directories across.
Ian

Sorry for this delay.
I've put up the site at: http://conference.scipy.org/jhepc2013/
I'll get Jim to incorporate it in the main site.
-- Andy
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:
> On 08/08/2013 11:56 AM, Andy Ray Terrel wrote:
>
>> Doh, I never got the site up! This looks good, although copyright
>> shouldn't go to Michael. We don't have copyright on the images or
>> text just permission to display them. (I would probably just delete
>> it or be specific what the copyright is.) I like the idea of having a
>> site next to conference.scipy.org to display these.
>>
>
> Yeah -- the copyright ended up to me accidentally because I filled it out
> as the "author" field in Sphinx in the original version. I think if we
> want to have an "author" it should say "Scipy Conference Organizers"
> (without copyright), and maybe we give Nelle some well deserved credit for
> the web design as well.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>> -- Andy
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Nelle Varoquaux
>> <nel...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> Here is my attempt at making the website:
>>> http://nellev.github.io/tmp/**jhepc/index.html<http://nellev.github.io/tmp/jhepc/index.html>
>>> This is still work in progress, but feedback is welcomed.
>>>
>>> I chose to display only the "winners" (three top place + honorable
>>> mention).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> N
>>>
>>>
>>> On 31 July 2013 17:54, Andy Ray Terrel <and...@gm...> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Okay, I'll get it up.
>>>>
>>>> -- Andy
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 07/31/2013 11:38 AM, Andy Ray Terrel wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The plan was to have it on the SciPy conference website, but we haven't
>>>>> really got it up. If someone can point me to rendered html, I can ask
>>>>> Jim to
>>>>> put it up there now.
>>>>>
>>>>> The rendered HTML is in the scipy2013_talks github repo.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://github.com/scipy/**scipy2013_talks/tree/master/**
>>>>> plotting_contest<https://github.com/scipy/scipy2013_talks/tree/master/plotting_contest>
>>>>>
>>>>> That will be fine for now, and it sounds like Nelle will make the
>>>>> presentation much better down the road, at which case we can update it
>>>>> then.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mike
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>

I like this idea. I've seen this called "extern" in other projects, but I don't have a strong feeling about the name. I think it's good idea for all of the reasons you mention.
Mike
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From: Ian Thomas [ian...@gm...]
Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2013 4:09 PM
To: mat...@li...
Subject: [matplotlib-devel] Directories for C/C++ extensions
Fellow developers,
I am working on a PR to replace the use of matplotlib.delaunay with the Qhull library. Installation will be similar to the existing packages LibAgg and CXX in that if the system already has a sufficiently recent version of Qhull installed then matplotlib will use that, otherwise it will build the required library from the source code shipped with matplotlib.
I have a thin C wrapper called qhull_wrap.c (following the coding guidelines) which I'll put in the top-level src directory along with most of the existing C/C++ extensions. But my question is where to put the qhull source code?
Current practice has separate top-level directories called agg24 and CXX for the LibAgg and CXX packages respectively, so my initial thought was to follow this and create a new top-level directory called qhull to place the library code in. But I don't like this approach of creating a new top-level directory as (1) I think the top-level should remain as simple and uncluttered as possible, (2) it tends to overemphasize the importance of these third-party libraries as they are some of the first directories users see when unzipping the mpl tarball, and (3) it is not immediately obvious that the code in these directories is from third-party libraries rather than something we ourselves have written.
Hence my preference is to create a new top-level directory called something like 'third-party' (or should that be 'third_party'?), and place all the third-party libraries in that; i.e. move the agg24 and CXX directories into third-party, and place the new qhull source code in third-party/qhull.
What do others think of this idea?
Ian Thomas