[Insight-users] redistribution questions

Wed Aug 8 09:40:29 EDT 2007

Hi Luis,

Thank you for your patient explaination. My users just need to run the 
application, they do not have the need to rebulid the program. So I think I 
would just provide them with the exe application file and the itk dll. I 
would bulid everything on my side. Thanks for your help.

Qing

>From: "Luis Ibanez" <luis.ibanez at kitware.com>
>To: "qing xu" <qingxu8 at hotmail.com>
>CC: insight-users at itk.org
>Subject: Re: [Insight-users] redistribution questions
>Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 09:57:28 -0400
>
>Hi Qing,
>
>Well, the "binary" form of ITK not a real solution either,
>since most of ITK is templated code, the libraries contain
>a very small portion of the total toolkit.
>
>If you are distributing your application and want others
>to be able to rebuild it, then they should have access
>to the source code of ITK. Of course, only if they are
>trying to rebuild it.
>
>If your users are only going to run your application,
>then the simplest way to proceed is to compile ITK
>for Statics libraries, and just distribute your executable.
>
>You may also want to take a look at CPack (from CMake)
>which is the tool intended for packaging code for distribution.
>
>
>     Regards,
>
>
>          Luis
>
>
>--------------------------------
>On 8/6/07, qing xu <qingxu8 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Luis,
> >
> > Thank you for your suggestion.You are right, it seems that there is 
>little
> > difference between incorporting part of or all of the itk source code.
> > Maybe
> > I will just keep using the binary form of itk.
> > Thanks a lot.
> >
> > Qing
> >
> >
> >
> > >From: "Luis Ibanez" <luis.ibanez at kitware.com>
> > >To: "qing xu" <qingxu8 at hotmail.com>
> > >CC: insight-users at itk.org
> > >Subject: Re: [Insight-users] redistribution questions
> > >Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 13:28:40 -0400
> > >
> > >Hi Qing,
> > >
> > >Yes, I'm suggesting that you should include all of ITK with your 
>project.
> > >
> > >It will be rather difficult to extract only the classes that you are
> > using,
> > >although it is not impossible.
> > >
> > >You should ask yourself, what is the purpose of adding to your project
> > >the code from ITK ?
> > >
> > >Why not just say that you distribute the code, and that it should be
> > >build using ITK version X.Y. ?
> > >
> > >Keep in mind that we make ITK releases every three monts,
> > >so, by extracting code from ITK you will also face the challenge
> > >of updating your version of the code to new releases of ITK.
> > >
> > >This may o may not be a problem, depending on who are
> > >the recipients of the code that you are delivering, and how
> > >you are going to maintain that code for the next five to
> > >ten years.
> > >
> > >
> > >       Regards,
> > >
> > >
> > >           Luis
> > >
> > >
> > >---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >On 8/6/07, qing xu <qingxu8 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi Luis,
> > > >
> > > > Thanks a lot for your reply.
> > > >
> > > > I use the 3d versor rigid registration part of ITK, and now I want 
>to
> > > > incorporate the source code of ITK to my project. So, first, I have 
>to
> > > > figure out what files in ITK are related to the functions I am 
>using.
> > >What
> > > > I
> > > > am doing now is to check the header files to see what must be 
>included
> > >to
> > > > implement the registration.  But it seems that there are so many 
>files
> > > > related to the registraiton part, is there a easy way to do that?  
>Are
> > >you
> > > > suggesting that I should include all the ITK source codes to my
> > project?
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > Qing
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >From: "Luis Ibanez" <luis.ibanez at kitware.com>
> > > > >To: "qing xu" <qingxu8 at hotmail.com>
> > > > >CC: insight-users at itk.org
> > > > >Subject: Re: [Insight-users] redistribution questions
> > > > >Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 12:12:42 -0400
> > > > >
> > > > >Hi Qing,
> > > > >
> > > > >Yes, you are allowed (and encouraged)
> > > > >to redistribute ITK's source code.
> > > > >
> > > > >Why are you finding difficult to pack all the code ?
> > > > >
> > > > >You can just take the tar or .zip file corresponding
> > > > >to the ITK release that you are using.
> > > > >
> > > > >The tar/zip files are available at:
> > > > >
> > > > >     http://www.itk.org/HTML/Download.php
> > > > >
> > > > >You could also just use the cvs export command
> > > > >and if you are using a particular CVS version of ITK.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >   Regards,
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >       Luis
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >===========================
> > > > >On 8/6/07, qing xu <qingxu8 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I am currently considering incorporating itk source code to my
> > > > project.
> > > > >I
> > > > > > read the copyright notice and seems that it allows me to
> > >redistribute
> > > > in
> > > > > > source code form. But it seems not trivial to find all the 
>related
> > > > >source
> > > > > > code files. Anyone has done the similar thing? Any suggestion is
> > > > >welcome.
> > > > > > Thanks.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Qing
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
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