[Insight-developers] ITKv4 Module Names

[Bill Lorensen]

Brad,

It looks great to me. I also like the 2-level naming.

Thanks,

Bill

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> After debate with Bill Lorensen in the "ITKv4 Modularization Plan" thread:
>
>  http://www.itk.org/mailman/private/insight-developers/2011-February/017095.html
>
> about the module names, we looked into a new layout and naming that is closer
> to existing ITK conventions.  I updated the CMake code that implements the
> module infrastructure to make module names and locations totally independent.
>
> Please see the attached file for the proposed names and layout.  For example,
> the line
>
> itk-anisotropic-smoothing  ITK-AnisotropicSmoothing  ITK/Filtering/AnisotropicSmoothing
>
> proposes to rename the itk-anisotropic-smoothing to ITK-AnisotropicSmoothing and
> relocate its source tree position from
>
>  modules/itk-anisotropic-smoothing
>
> to
>
>  ITK/Filtering/AnisotropicSmoothing
>
> Note that the "Filtering" directory diverges from the previous flat layout
> We still treat the modules logically as a flat set but just organize the
> source directory structure a bit.  Future re-organization of the directory
> layout will not require any code changes.  The CMake code simply globs for
> modules with
>
>  <top>/*/*/itk-module.cmake
>  <top>/*/*/*/itk-module.cmake
>
> which allows up to two levels of grouping.  The first level is always
> just "ITK/" for our modules but others that merge ITK into their source
> can add "MyCompany/" modules too.
>
> The attached file is just a rough draft.  I need help with choosing the
> final CamelCase appearance of each module name.  Also, it doesn't account
> for a couple of new modules that were added in the last day or 2 but
> I think the idea is clear.
>
> Comments?
> -Brad
>
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