Slicer3:Loadable Modules

Overview

• User experience
  • Run slicer
  • File->Get Modules
    • Web browser http://modules.slicer.org/<version #>
    • Archived of precompiled shared libraries (platform specific)
  • Select modules
  • Modules are downloaded and unpacked into Slicer build tree (install directory)
  • Restart Slicer
  • Can remove modules

• Developer
  • make slicer build tree locally
  • create module from a template (GUI, Logic, MRML) see GAD
  • test locally on their platform
  • create project in NITRC (source forge)
  • submit module to a “build farm”
    • Register svn with slicer.org (Kitware, TBD)
  • Nightly build gets uploaded to slicer.org

• Phase 1: Slicer internals
  • runtime module discovery
  • module template
  • like CommandLineModuleFactory

• Phase 2: web development, deployment
  • prototype on wiki
  • versions, download,
  • upload

Questions

• Sebastien: let's try to coordinate our XML module descriptions

References

• Eclipse module architecture
• Mozilla extensions for Firefox