Documentation/Labs/AutomaticUpdateAndInstallationFramework

Use cases:

• new version installed locally should be updated with the list of extension previously installed
• self update of Slicer

Notes from 2016.05.03

• See also Documentation/Labs/ExtensionsFrameworkRoadmap

• Ability to ask the installer (or Slicer) to install other extensions
  • Would it make sense to transition to http://doc.qt.io/qtinstallerframework/ ?

• Serialize what is installed in you current Slicer

• Update of installed extensions:
  • See https://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Documentation/4.5/SlicerApplication/ExtensionsManager#Updating_installed_extensions

Related issues

• 2779: Mechanism to keep track of the installed extensions across version

Todo

• Extract list of extensions installed. Look at npm for the format.
• Extension manager:
  • Update ExtensionManageModel API so that "list" can be processed
  • Update entry "Install Extension from file" to "Install Extensions from file" and support "tar.gz", ".json"