[SciPy-Dev] Opinions re: duplication of content

[David Goldsmith]

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 7:45 AM, <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Tom Grydeland <tom.grydeland at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 10. juli 2010, at 22.58, David Goldsmith <d.l.goldsmith at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> numpy.fft has a lengthy, referenced "Background" section on DFT's in
> >> general; opinions, please, re: duplicating vs. referencing that
> >> content in scipy.fftpack.basic.
> >
> > To me, referencing it is the best -- only one copy to keep current.
>
> We had a brief discussion on the mailing list a while ago about the
> background docs for fftpack, repeating a few paragraphs doesn't sound
> a lot of duplication.
>
> Some (very incomplete) information is in
> http://docs.scipy.org/scipy/docs/scipy-docs/tutorial/fftpack.rst/#fftpack
> put there to rescue the Latex rendered formulas, because they had too
> much markup for the docstrings.
>

OK, thanks guys, a couple paragraphs (of a nature that won't need to be
updated - as it is, the content under discussion is background, i.e.,
mathematical, not computational, and thus is based on stuff a century to two
old) and then referral.

DG


>
> Josef
>
> >
> >> DG
> >
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