[Chandler-dev] Re: incorporating MDP package into external tools

[Philippe Bossut]

Hi,

Xun Luo wrote:
> I am thinking that if it is feasible to incorporate a python library 
> MDB(http://mdp-toolkit.sourceforge.net/) into the chandler toolbox. It 
> is a pure python library for advanced data processing and is under 
> LGPL. Philippe and I discussed about the licence before and feel there 
> should be issue with the license.
You mean: there should be *no* issue with the license. I actually 
cleared that out with the MDP folks on their mailing list and, indeed, 
there should be no issue though the LGPL is a little unclear when it 
comes to interpreted code like Python.
> This is still a preliminary proposal for your comments. If we do not 
> plan to add this into the trunk at present, I could also branch proper 
> directory to put it under. Do you have suggestions where to put it? 
> /util, /tools, or other places? And how could I set the import paths 
> so that the plugin applications could directly import them without 
> specifying absolute path?
As I said in the original email, external libraries are put under 
/external, same as we do for other external Python libraries we use. I 
see no reason not to do the same thing with MDP. I sure would like to 
hear from Bear on this though.

Cheers,
- Philippe