Re: dicom package maintainer

[Carnë Draug]

On 29 January 2017 at 20:26, PhilipNienhuis <address@hidden> wrote:
> Carnë Draug wrote
>>
>> <snip>
>> A set of dicom files for a thorough test suite may become quite large
>> so I am not sure if it's a good idea to start adding them to the
>> repository.  Maybe a repository with test datasets could be created
>> and there could be optional tests that download the files as part of
>> maintainer tests.  Such setup would also be handy for core and at
>> least the io package.
>
> .... and the mapping package ..... (think of .shp, .dxf and the various
> raster file formats.)
>
> Good idea, Carnë.
>
> That said, for io it would only be the reading of (especially) .xlsx files
> that would benefit.
> Properly writing those files can only be tested by Excel itself :-(  (only
> to some extent by LibreOffice)
>
> I still may have several example files that I used for debugging that were
> handed to me in good faith, yet I think it could be a lot of work to
> "anonymize" them.
>

It would also be some work to make it in a way that is not Octave
specific since Octave is not the only project that would gain from
such repository.  I guess that would also attract contributors from
other projects too.

I have seen projects that have their own repositories of test data in
a format useful for them.  I am not familiar with any general purpose
repository for test data.  I don't believe I am the first person to
think of it but I didn't found anything online.  I guess others have
also found it to be a difficult problem.

Carnë