[Insight-developers] ITKVideo as a module

[Gabe Hart]

Also, we have a custom FindOpenCV.cmake.  Where should that end up in 
the module structure?

-Gabe

On 03/15/2011 12:27 PM, Gabe Hart wrote:
> On 03/15/2011 12:06 PM, Brad King wrote:
>> On 03/15/2011 11:59 AM, Gabe Hart wrote:
>>> 0) Is there documentation somewhere that will preempt my other 
>>> questions?
>> We're still getting everything working in modularized form.  
>> Documentation
>> of how to add a module will be added later.
>>
>>> 1) What sort of structure should a module like this aim for?  Since 
>>> this
>>> is an A2D2, my thought is that it should live alongside the inner ITK
>>> directory (or whatever it will be renamed to) rather than inside it.
>> Is this going to be distributed in ITK proper in the future?
> I think this question relates to the lower one.  The goal of this 
> module is to provide bridges between OpenCV and VXL as well as support 
> for native ITK video filters, so based on the large dependencies I'd 
> imagine that it won't be part of the primary ITK distribution.
>>> 2) How/Where should external dependencies be added?  It looks like the
>>> CMake structure consists of finding all itk-module.cmake files that 
>>> live
>>> at SOURCE/*/*/*/ (3 levels deep).  My inclination would be to put 
>>> things
>>> like find_packate(OpenCV) here.  Is that right?
>> If it is a truly outside dependency that must be installed to be used 
>> then
>> just put find_package(OpenCV) right in the main CMakeLists.txt file of
>> your module to locate it on the system when it is needed.  I'd rather 
>> not
>> bring a fork of OpenCV in as a module.
> I agree that bringing in OpenCV itself is a bad idea.  At this point, 
> the module's directory structure looks like:
>
> Video
> - Filters
> -- OpenCV
> -- vxl
> - IO
> -- OpenCV
> -- vxl
>
> The CMakeLists.txt and itk-module.cmake files are only located in the 
> OpenCV and vxl directories.  Should the find_package calls go into 
> those CMakeLists files, or should there be a single CMakeLists file in 
> one of the higher up directories that finds them?
>
> Thanks,
> -Gabe
>


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