Documentation/Nightly/Developers/Tutorials/Contribute Extension Description File using Extension Wizard
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Contents
Definitions
- Extension description file: This is a text file with extension
.s4ext
that fully described an extension. More details here.
- ExtensionsIndex: This is a repository containing a list of extension description files
*.s4ext
. These description files are used by the Slicer extensions build system to build, test, package and upload extensions on the extensions server. More details here
Prerequisites
- Extension belongs to Category 1 or Category 2 as described in Slicer requirements
- Extension has been built, tested and installed on at least one platform (Linux, MacOSX or Windows)
Contributing a new extension / Requesting an extension update
Linux or MacOSX: Start a terminal.
Windows: Start Git Bash
(not the Windows command line). Need help ?
Extensions built against Slicer trunk
The following instruction describes how to contribute extension description file for an extension being built against slicer trunk.
$ bin/slicerExtensionWizard --contribute ~/Slicer-MyExtension/
Extensions build against Slicer 4.10
The following instruction describes how to contribute extension description file for an extension being built against slicer 4.10.
$ bin/slicerExtensionWizard --contribute --target 4.10 ~/Slicer-MyExtension/