Re: ANTs & Data file license in http://slicer.kitware.com/midas3/
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:58 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko
<debian@onerussian.com> 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
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