[Nipy-devel] FIAC data

[Matthew Brett]

> Not that anyone asked for my opinion ... :)

I do hope that never stops you - and good result in this case as usual...

> How about keeping the
> standard download really tight, so that test() works with toy tests
> (for those which require external datasets), and then having
> test(level=10) use the extra files?  You could have a simple check in
> that level of tests which prints a message if the extra datafiles are
> not found and indicates what the download URL and install procedure
> should be, in case the user wants to run a full test suite.

That seems like an excellent direction to go. Any thoughts? How easy
would that be?

Will we need to somehow modify the svn repository to avoid the history
from the very large files even after they are gone?

Best,

Matthew