On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:58 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko <[email protected]> wrote: > >> @Yaroslav, the script we use for creating the ITK tarballs [3] may be >> a useful reference for creating an ANTS data tarball. > > Thank you Matthew, we might make use of its parts... but while at it I > would like to raise a concern actually about shipping those relatively > large data volumes used for testing WITHIN the source tarballs... Do > you expect those to get modified (grow/change) with each ITK release? > ATM those data samples occupy big (if not majority) of the > compressed tarball IIRC. > > May be that data could get a life of its own? ;) i.e. may be we could > better package "working set" of test images used by ITK/ANTs (else?) and > distribute a dedicated package with only data? I eventually see it > possible that data(set) stabilizes more than code which keeps developing > reusing those data files > > P.S. That is what Michael (of NeuroDebian) has done to other big > projects such as AFNI, FSL etc -- we barely ever update the data > packages but code packages get updated quite often now without incurring > any major penalty of dragging the same data around >
The testing data is included with the source tarballs so that the source tarball can be downloaded and the tests can be readily run without any extra effort and without a network connection. The testing data will vary with releases. Most of the data are not input images but baseline, i.e. ground truth, images used when verifying the output of a test. Cheers, Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/ca+xjkaaux7t3e3nu5_bwyxat0wx1ogsz1glptvb+bq_ojt4...@mail.gmail.com
