Slicer4:Developers

Work on 3D Slicer version 4 has begun in June of 2010. It is expected that Slicer4 will be released in 2011. Please see the Slicer4 Description Page for detailed information on the current plans.

• For information about older versions of Slicer, see here.

Introduction

• This page of for scientist who write source code, if you want to use a pre-compiled version of Slicer, please go to the download page.
• Slicer 4 will include a number of fundamental changes to the infrastructure:
  • Qt widgets will replace KWW widgets
  • CMAKE superbuild will replace getbuildtest
  • git will replace svn

Compiling

• how to get the source code
• how to compile on your computer

Projects

(please add your new project to the top of the table)

Slicer3 Projects	Key People Bold names are responsible for an aspect of the project.
EM Segmenter	Kilian Pohl
Annotation	Kilian Pohl, Daniel Haehn
Porting Slicer from kww to Qt	Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin, Julien Finet, Steve Pieper

Quick Links for Developers

This section centrally locates many existing (and developing) wiki pages useful to Slicer3 developers.

Slicer 4 Quick links to the Source code

The Slicer4 git repository:

• Put link here

General Slicer4 Quick Links	Debugging Slicer4 Quick Links
Slicer4 build instructions	Slicer4 Dashboard (After XX XXXX)
Use ViewVC to browse the repository	Slicer3 Dashboard (Before XX XXXX)
Instructions for NA-MIC svn	Slicer Bug Tracker
Doxygen documentation for Slicer4.
The Slicer4 VisualBlog shows screenshots of slicer developments.
Developers should follow the Slicer 4 Coding Style.

Developers' Mailing List

Discussion of Slicer3 takes place on the slicer-devel at massmail.spl.harvard.edu list. To join developer's mailing list, send a request to: slicer-devel-request at massmail.spl.harvard.edu with the keyword subscribe as the subject. Or access the slicer-devel archives and web administration interface.