ITK/Release 4/Modularization/Goals

Goals

The following are the goals of modularizing the toolkit:

• Organize the continuous growth of the Toolkit
  • Create system with a kernel of base-level code and topic modules
    • Hierarchy of modules?
  • Kernel very rigorously supported and developed
  • Possibly two classes of modules: Core and Extra
  • Core modules also rigorously supported
  • Extra modules less so
• Simplify usage for application developers
  • Package manager that allows user to choose exactly what functionality is desired
  • Modules exist along logical boundaries
• Thrid-party dependencies
  • Bring outside libraries in as modules
  • No more Utilities/ directory