On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, Matthew McCormick 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. Fair enough if data is to change with releases and tarballs remain the ultimate form of "sources" -- thank you Matthew. Brian -- is that to be the case with ANTs? then would you be so kind to provide similar tarball distribution bundled with data? Cheers! -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Ph.D. http://neuro.debian.net http://www.pymvpa.org http://www.fail2ban.org Senior Research Associate, Psychological and Brain Sciences Dept. Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
