[TIP] why you should distribute tests with your application / module

[Grig Gheorghiu]

--- On Wed, 9/17/08, Pete <pfein at pobox.com> wrote:

> 
> I mean for distribution.  My test dataset falls into some
> middle  
> ground - it's a few megabytes. Not the gigabytes that
> would lean  
> towards generation, but still larger than the rest of my
> source tree.   
> Seems silly to turn a 30K package into a 5M one b/c of test
> data...
> 

Idea: don't include your test dataset with your source code, but have your test script wget it from some location during the test run. Amazon S3 comes to mind as a very cheap repository for this kind of stuff.

Grig