[pymvpa] Please do not yet merge sg/master from alioth

[Michael Hanke]

Hi Scott,

now the size of text.plx is just right ;-)

Thanks for taking care.


Can you please put your test code into the unittest framework, so we can
make sure it works as you intended it.


Thanks,

Michael

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 09:25:14AM -0400, Scott Gorlin wrote:
> Oh fudge, that was my first time using git - i'm not surprised I broke  
> something.
>
> I thought that pushing something in my branch didn't affect the  
> repository unless someone decided to merge it??  Should I be doing  
> something else to update my branch without affecting master, or are you  
> just concerned with the overall size of any files uploaded to alioth?
>
> I was debating whether to put those files in data or in that folder -  
> they are (tiny in comparison to normal plx files) sample data who's only  
> purpose will be reading unittests, provided by plexon, and I figured  
> they would not be of general interest so that's why I placed them in the  
> io folder... but certainly they can be moved to data if you think that's  
> appropriate.  They could be removed altogether if this is a real issue  
> (or maybe one is smaller than the other - I haven't checked) though it  
> would be nice to have one in just for testing purposes.
>
> My bad...
>
> Michael Hanke wrote:
>> Hi Scott and list,
>>
>> yesterday two rather huge datafiles were pushed into the repository on
>> Alioth, as part of a new data reader Scott is working on. Both files are
>> currently located in mvpa/misc/io/plexon and together add 12 MB to the
>> repository.
>>
>> Those file (if they are necessary for unittests are demonstration
>> purposes) should go into mvpa/data. However, I am more concerned with the
>> size of the files. They would effectively triple the size of the source
>> tarball -- and I don't know whether it is worth it.
>>
>> Scott, can you add some information if those files are critical, or if
>> their size could be reduced while preserving their suitability for
>> whatever they are necessary for? The largest data file we had so far is
>> the fMRI dataset with 1.3 MB.
>>
>> If it turns out that we need more and more data files, I'd prefer to
>> separate them from the source tree and keep the repository at a
>> managable size.
>>
>>
>> Meanwhile I am going to revert that push -- so please don't merge it!!
>>
>>
>> I want to emphasize that I am not against all this, but I just want to
>> discuss this topic before we have it as a fact in the repository
>> history.
>>
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>   
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