Source file locations

[kain88-de]

Place all source files for compiled shared object files into the same folder as the final shared object file.

*.pyx files and cython-generated *.c would be in the same directory as the *.so. While external dependend C/C++/Fortran libraries are in dedicate src and include folders. See the following tree as an example.

MDAnalysis 
      |--lib
      |   |-- _distances.so
      |   |-- distances.pyx
      |   |-- distances.c
      |-- coordinates
          |-- _dcdmodule.so
          |-- src
              |-- dcd.c
          |-- include
              |-- dcd.h

This is standard see numpy, scipy, scikit-learn. mdtraj

[orbeckst]

Why not? If it makes clearer what belongs together I have no objections.

[orbeckst]

I am officially in favor of the proposal. Any other voices?

[hainm]

I always favor following common concept in ecosystem. so +1.

[kain88-de]

could we maybe add an easy tag to this?

[orbeckst]

Something like the 'repository' tag that I just added (basically, anything relating to how we organize code), or do you want something more specific?

[kain88-de]

I thought about an easy tag meaning they are bugs easy to solve. It would be a mark to show people who want to contribute what good bugs to pick are at the beginning.

[orbeckst]

Ok, I added tag Difficulty-easy and tag Difficulty-hard to the list; obviously, that lies somewhat in the eye of the beholder but please: tag away!

(I purposefully omitted Difficulty-medium to avoid swamping issues with a default tag...)