[Insight-developers] ImageSeriesReader / ImageSeriesWriter

[Lorensen, William E (Research)]

I would prefer an attempt to maintain compatibility as long as it is not too
ugly.

Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: Mathieu Malaterre [mailto:mathieu.malaterre at kitware.com]
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 11:01 PM
To: insight-developers at itk.org
Subject: [Insight-developers] ImageSeriesReader / ImageSeriesWriter


Hi,

   I was looking for a way to write a series of files, with arbitrary
filenames. So I found ImageSeriesWriter, since ImageSeriesReader was doing
what I was looking for. But it seems like this class is more like a
ImageNumericSeriesWriter. 

  I implemented a patch so this class would take an abritrary set of
filenames. My question is then:

- Can I apply this patch (*) ?

- If so I have different options:
   1. Copy the old class to a new class called ImageNumericSeriesWriter
   2. Change all existing tests/example using the old ImageSeriesWriter to
use the new one in combination with a NumericSeriesFileNames
   3. Try to maintain some sort of compatibility mode.

My prefered approach is 2, it shows users how flexible the SeriesWriter are.

Comments suggestions welcome,
Mathieu
(*) I am having currently some problems generating patches since the backup
of last week. It seems to have change files date&time on the cvs repository
and thus to use the included patch to this email, one need to do:

   patch -p1 < series.patch
           ^
Mathieu