[BioRuby] RFC Unit testing large files

[Raoul Jean Pierre Bonnal]

Il giorno ven, 19/09/2008 alle 16.05 +0200, Pjotr Prins ha scritto:
> For microarray unit tests I have some 30Mb of files. Probably not
> very nice to put those in the source tree. The options are:
> 
> 1. Host them in the source tree - huge downloads for everyone.
> 
> 2. Fetch them on demand by the unit tests - takes long time the first
> time and where do I put them? In a cache directory?
> 
> 3. Have the unit tests in a separate tree - special purpose testing
> 
> 4. No unit tests for these
> 
> I have the same unit tests in the biolib tree - but that is a hassle
> too. For BioRuby I propose (3). Maybe I ought to solely use the biolib
> tree for these specific unit tests and have a 'stub' in the Bioruby
> tree for them.
> 
> This problem will come back - and keep in mind the free github space
> is 'only' 100 Mb.

Create a piece of code to generate fake data for local test?

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Ra