[Insight-developers] migration guide

[Gabe Hart]

One more update... this time to the wiki tutorial.  The quick version is 
all set now at:

http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Release_4/MigrationGuideDeveloperTutorial#Quick_Version

-Gabe

On 11/19/2010 10:46 AM, Gabe Hart wrote:
> 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,
>>> http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Release_4/MigrationGuideDeveloperTutorial#Quick_Version
>>> Gaëtan
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>


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