FWIW, I'm in favor of moving large data assets out, but my preference would be to always have the sources of tests in the main repo. The debates about this aren't super interesting/fun, but anyway that's where I land on it, even if the project goes in another direction. Best wishes, Tyler On Sat, 13 May 2023 at 05:07, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
This is an FYI that in conda-forge, thanks to the hard work of @h-vetinari [1], the `scipy` package now no longer contains tests. Instead, those are split off into a new `scipy-tests` package which, when you install that, puts all the test files back inside the `scipy` package tree.
The gain of that exercise was a ~30% size reduction, which seems worth it. We already had plans to do something similar in SciPy itself, by putting the heavy data files from the test suite under `scipy.datasets`. The gain of that will be less, probably 15-20% of the total size of wheels (excluding vendored openblas et al.). The conda-forge packages are a nice test case - if we receive no complaints from that, it should be pretty safe to move forward with that plan.
Cheers, Ralf
[1] https://github.com/conda-forge/scipy-feedstock/pull/184 _______________________________________________ SciPy-Dev mailing list -- scipy-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to scipy-dev-leave@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/scipy-dev.python.org/ Member address: tyler.je.reddy@gmail.com