[Insight-users] GDCM

[Lyubomir Zagorchev]

Hi Mathieu,

I just found that in one of your previous posts....

I wrote a program that reads a bunch of SQ entries. I couldn't do that
with Gdcm in ITK and I had to download the CVS. Now that I can read
the entries with the CVS version of Gdcm, I couldn't plug in the code
in my old ITK program.

I am using the GetValue method of a DataEntry. I guess I could get
around by using the GetEntryValue and then pass the std string through
an atof function...

Are there any plans to update the Gdcm in ITK to match the CVS of Gdcm?

Thanks for your quick reply,

Lyubomir




On 3/8/07, Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre at kitware.com> wrote:
> Lyubomir Zagorchev wrote:
> > Why gdcmDataEntry.cxx and gdcmDataEntry.h from Gdcm are not in the
> > Gdcm version in ITK?
>
> Hi Lyubomir,
>
>   Short version: because ITK is using gdcm 1.2.3, whereas the file you
> are referring to are from gdcm 1.4.x and up.
>   Long version: gdcm 1.4.x is not backward compatible with gdcm 1.2.x
> thus we cannot update easily to a newer gdcm version. I have been able
> to backport most of new functionalities from gdcm cvs back to gdcm 1.2
> without breaking API. What functionality are you missing ?
>
> Thanks,
> -Mathieu
>