[Insight-developers] Announcement: ITK 4.0 being ported to CMake

[kent williams]

Real men program Turing Machines: http://tinyurl.com/yzy7cyj

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYw2ewoO6c4

On 4/1/10 8:18 AM, "Daniel Blezek" <Blezek.Daniel at mayo.edu> wrote:

> Dear ITK developers,
> 
>   Fresh on the heels of CMake¹s switch to RCCS
> (http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2010-April/036231.html), I¹m happy to
> announce the upcoming roadmap for ITK 4.0.  Because the CMake configuration
> language has proved itself to be wildly capable of supporting any and all
> development platforms running on every conceivable device, the ITK development
> team has unanimously decided to port ITK to the CMake language for release as
> ITK 4.0.  
> 
>   The decision was greeted with wild enthusiasm by longtime ITK developers.
> It a tweet, one developer commented ³The CMake language has proved itself over
> and over as a great language for high performance medical imaging, about time
> we moved off of C++!².
> 
>   The port from C++ to CMake will occur in a one day marathon of coding,
> effective today.
> 
> Cheers,
> -dan