Re: Where to distribute auxiliary data files?

[John W. Eaton]

On 08/18/2014 05:29 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)
> 2) etc/ directory.  Currently this holds a grab bag of stuff such as NEWS,
> doc-cache, config.log, and a directory with the fixed built-in tests.
> 3) New location.  The imagelib directory is distributed in
> local/share/octave/VERSION/imagelib and contains default images and icons.
> Perhaps we need a new data/ directory that contains distributed data files.

Something like the attached change would be OK with me.

Should this directory be included in the default load path so that the 
load function will find data files there by default?

jwe

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