Hi NITRC team,
I've finally got around to contributing something to the snippet
library, and I have a few comments:
1. When adding snippets to a package, after submitting the last
one, I was looking around for a button like "Done" or "Finished", I
think it would be useful if this existed, and navigated you to the
summary of the package that you can subsequently find by browsing
for it.
2. I've just tried downloading things, and I'm slightly surprised
that there is no option to download a .zip/.tar.gz or similar of
all the files in the package. This would be really helpful!
3. Downloading individual functions results in them having names
like snippet_3.mat. Unfortunately, MATLAB functions need to be in
files with names matching the function names (e.g. my titles should
map to filenames as e.g. flirtmat_read -> flirtmat_read.m). This
might confuse some novice users, but it would also seem bad if
every single MATLAB snippet has to warn about this in its
description -- perhaps either of the following would be possible if
"MATLAB" is chosen as the language and "function" as the type?
(a) the name could be derived from a regexp match for the line
"function [outputs] = name(args)" (function must be the first
non-whitespace characters on this line)
(b) if auto-deriving the name seems too risky, just auto add a
warning that MATLAB functions should be saved with filenames
matching the function names.
Thanks for all your efforts building NITRC, and I hope to
contribute more in the future... All the best,
Ged
