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

[Gao, Yi]

I'm planning to use a magnetized needle and a steady hand for my
program today. ;D


On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:55 AM, kent williams
<norman-k-williams at uiowa.edu> wrote:
> 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
>
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-- 
Yi Gao
Graduate Student
Dept. Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology