[Nipy-devel] FIAC data

[Fernando Perez]

On 10/3/06, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Not that anyone asked for my opinion ... :)
>
> I do hope that never stops you - and good result in this case as usual...

Thanks for the kindness :)

> > 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?

I think this is a one-time price only on the server, but checkouts
(once the big files are removed from the current revision) should be
small again.     Since repository surgery is a bit risky, I'd hold off
on doing that unless you really need it later.

Cheers,

f