Developer Meetings/20150407

To discuss

• Create a new release: 4.4.1 or 4.5 ?
• Failing test: EMSegCL_Task_HumanEye_BRAINS_small
• Issue witg DataProbeLib

Conclusions

• Python module infrastructure improvement
  • Since commit r24155, scripted module are imported as python module.
  • The next change will be to support loading of slicer scripted module as regular python module (a folder with __init__.py)
  • A landmark file could be added to scripted module folder (slicer.json or slicer-module.json)
  • This landmark file could then be used to speedup the startup time by loading only the core scripted module.

• CLI and loadable module infrastructure improvement
  • Similarly to scripted module, the Slicer module loader could look for a landmark file

• Python interactor improvement
  • Would be nice to have history, support for CTRL-A and CTRL-R
  • We discussed the integration of readline or libedit but that could be a lot of work for a small gain
  • Instead trying to integrate IPython would provide us with a lot.
    • Some work to integrate ctkPythonConsole and IPython has been started last year (See QEmbedIPython)
  • Could also look at javascript implementation of console (Steve: Could you edit and add reference ?)