[Insight-developers] ITK and VS6 (and GDCM)

[Karthik Krishnan]

There is a much longer list of features in GDCM2 that aren't in GDCM 1.x
shipped with ITK, not to mention, its cleaner, easier to use and growing,
(thanks to Mathieu), so much so, that for a while now I haven't used the
GDCM shipped with ITK.

The point is : We should have a nightly dashboard at Kitware, that builds
with system gdcm, just to be safe, on each platfom. Do you know if we have
one already. I don't see it on the ITK dashboard. We would be grateful for
any contributions.

Thanks
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karthik

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:49 AM, kent williams
<norman-k-williams at uiowa.edu>wrote:

>  As has been mentioned, there are reasons why gdcm 2 may never be the
> ‘native’ version of gdcm included with ITK.  As you’ve discovered, it is
> possible to build ITK using a ‘system’ GDCM 2. This is fine if you feel you
> can’t live without GDCM 2 facilities.
>
> But, this discussion came about because of your Dicomimport tool, submitted
> to the Insight Journal.  I haven’t combed through the source exhaustively,
> but I don’t understand what GDCM 2 capabilities are necessary for this
> application?  I would think that if you want Dicomimport to be part of
> InsightApplications as a utilit, it would be worth spending the time to add
> support for GDCM 1.x.   GDCM 2.0 has obvious advantages over 1.x, but I
> don’t think there’s anything in 2.0 that can’t be done in 1.x with a little
> effort.
>
> Dicomimport is a program we’d very much like to use at Iowa  as part of our
> toolset as our raison d’etre is processing  a large volume of volumetric
> imaging, including dicom files straight from the scanner.  But it would
> require us to add GDCM to the list of packages that are prerequisite to
> BRAINS, along with ITK, VTK, KWWidgets, VTKINRIA3D, FFTW, Tcl, Tk, etc.
>   Every time we add another package prerequisite it adds complexity and
> brittleness to our build system, so we never do it lightly.
>
>
>
> On 11/5/09 10:46 AM, "Rashindra Manniesing" <rashindra at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> I heavily rely on the GDCM 2.0.x package for dicom-file handling, in ITK.
>
> Unfortunately, ITK still ships with GDCM 1.x, apparently, because ITK still
> supports VS 6.0.
>
> With the risk of repeating a previous discussion on the subject, but I
> think it is important enough, I was wondering: why still VS6, with VS10
> already lying ahead? Shouldn't we all move forward?
>
> Best regards,  Rashindra
>
>
>
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