Re: Downloading of test data
Hi guys,
thank you for all your answers
Il 13/08/2011 13:09, Antonio Valentino ha scritto:
> Hi mentors,
> I have a package (pyepr) that provides a small python extension written
> in cython.
> The upstream source includes a test suite that needs some data to be
> downloaded from the internet (398K) using wget.
> Note that data are only used for testing, they are not installed.
>
> My question is: is it sane to download data at package build time?
>
> And, in case, should wget be set as build-dependency?
>
> Thanks
The dataset needed for automatic testing in a satellite image.
It is part of a sample/demo dataset provided by the European Space Agency.
Although data are available for free download I don't know if
re-distribution is allowed and in which terms.
regards
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Antonio Valentino
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