[Pkg-exppsy-pynifti] [Nipy-devel] Data packaging, a proposal for feedback

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

>    - We should provide a default template and atlas environment, where
>      the default (or 'core') nipy data set gets installed.

I'm not sure what 'default template and atlas environment' means - can
you expand?

>            - easy programmatic browsing of the available data
>              (for example a method that returns a nested set of
>              dictionnaries, or something. I attached an example).

Could add that - yes...

>    - I found through my interactions with users (at least French ones)
>      that the notion of repository was confusing. We should not have to
>      expose it to end users. However, this does not mean that the model
>      needs to change in any way, we could have the following API:
>
>        from nipy import load_img, templates # Notice no 'repo'
>        mni152t1 = load_img(templates.get('templates', '1mm', 'T1'))

I think you are saying 'can we rename template_repo to templates' -
yes - that is fine...

See you,

Matthew