[Insight-developers] migration guide

[Gabe Hart]

And the promised revision...

This will now take the input file name (which is assumed to be in 
CamelCase) and add spaces between each capitalized word to create the 
<Title> element.  This can be manually edited if a different title is 
desired.

-Gabe

On 11/19/2010 10:35 AM, Gabe Hart wrote:
> Hi Gaëtan,
>
> This is a great (and timely) question.  I'm currently working on 
> getting this all set up and just finished a first prototype of the XML 
> file initialization script (attached).  The goal of this script is to 
> initialize all the fields of the XML file using information from your 
> git commits.  I'm also in the process of putting together a 
> step-by-step tutorial of the process at:
>
> http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Release_4/MigrationGuideDeveloperTutorial
>
> At this point, the simple solution should be to put the script in 
> $ITK_SOURCE_DIR/Migration and run it from $ITK_SOURCE_DIR (might work 
> in other ways, but not tested yet).  It will ask for a unique name 
> that describes the change (there aren't many xml files in the 
> Migration folder yet, so this should be easy to come up with).  The 
> script will then generate a file in the Migration folder with the 
> initial fields filled in.  It should be manually edited for 
> conciseness (it is basically just a dump of info from the git commits).
>
> For information about what should ultimately be in the XML file, see
>
> http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Release_4/Users_Migration_Guide/Migration_Guide_XML_Format 
>
>
> -Gabe
>
> PS: As I wrote this, I realized that I forgot to make the script 
> handle the <Title> element, so a revision for that will be forthcoming
>
> On 11/19/2010 10:25 AM, Gaëtan Lehmann wrote:
>>
>> Hi Gabe,
>>
>> I've proposed a non backward compatible change that I like to 
>> document for the migration guide:
>>
>>   http://review.source.kitware.com/#change,374
>>
>> I'm a bit lost though, probably because I was not at the fall meeting.
>> In
>>
>>   http://itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Release_4/MigrationGuideDeveloperTutorial
>>
>> some automatic tools are mentioned, but I can't find them.
>>
>> Do we already have those tools?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gaëtan
>>
>>
>
>


-- 
Gabe Hart
R&D Engineer
Kitware, Inc. - North Carolina Office
http://www.kitware.com
(919) 969-6990 x317

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