[Insight-developers] Adding MINC to ITK

[Bill Lorensen]

Luis,

I had bad experience with netCDF about 20 years ago. It was not very
portable. I assume that this is not a problem anymore? If we decide to add
the suggested classes to itk, I think we should first add the libraries
(mangled) to utilities, see how portable they are and how many warnings we
will have to deal with.

Bill

On 8/27/07, Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>
> As you probably know, there is an ongoing effort
> for adding support for the MINC2 file format(s)
> to ITK.
>
> This is based on the following contribution to the
> Insight Journal:
> http://insight-journal.org/dspace/handle/1926/191
>
> With reviews:
>
> http://www.insight-journal.org/InsightJournalManager/view_reviews.php?back=&journalid=4&pubid=88
>
> The proposal page can be found in the ITK Wiki at:
> http://www.itk.org/Wiki/Proposals:Adding_MINC_File_Format
>
>
> One of the implications of adding support for MINC2
> is that we should decide whether to include or not
> the following third party libraries into ITK:
>
>    - MINC2
>    - HDF5
>    - NetCDF
>
> Details about the libraries have been added to:
>
> http://www.itk.org/Wiki/Proposals:Adding_MINC_File_Format#Third_party_libraries
>
>
> Their licenses seem to be compatible with the
> BSD-like license used by ITK.
>
> The source sizes of the libraries is:
>
>    MINC2  =  7.6 Mb
>    HDF5   =  5.2 Mb
>    NetCDF =  0.5 Mb
>   ------------------
>    Total  = 13.3 Mb
>
> The current size of ITK source code is 98Mb,
> and the size of the Utilities subdirectory is 28.8Mb
>
> If we add these libraries, the Utilities directory
> will become 42Mb, and ITK total will be about 112 Mb.
>
>
> HDF5 is currently included in ParaView
> NetCDF is currently included in VTK
>
> This means that we probably should anticipate mangling
> the symbols of these libraries, to avoid conflicts when
> linking projects with VTK.
>
>
>
> We welcome any comments regarding whether we should
> include these libraries in the Utilities directory
> or not.
>
>
>      Thanks
>
>
>        Luis
>
>
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