[Insight-developers] proposal: remove the gdcm build options from ITK

[Alexandre GOUAILLARD]

hi mark.

thanks for the feedback.

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Mark Roden <mmroden at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> Before we leave the subject, I've done some more investigating into
> the gdcm tests.  I wiped everything (rm -rf *) and restarted with a
> clone from the repository.
>
> First, should it be possible to build itk without building
> ITKGroup-Core?

I guess only the modularisation group can answer this at this point
(xiaoxiao, luis, brad)

> I'd think that the core group should always be built,
> and any user choosing not to do so is just shooting themselves in the
> foot.  You can just build testing, but that leads to my second point:
> the tests aren't (yet) organized into the proper submodules.

Modularisation is not done with yet. It s in need of love from us all.
Can you tell us more about this, what kind of experiment you did, what
where your expectations and what was the observed behavior?

>
> Second, when I build just ITKGroup-Core and ITKGroup-IO, the gdcm
> tests aren't present, but the gdcm build options show up.  That
> suggests to me that the gdcm tests have been moved to another module.
> If I include Utilities, the gdcm tests are still not included. Same
> with Bridge.  Using Luis' grep -r -n trick, I find that the nonunit
> module has the gdcm tests.