Documentation/Nightly/Developers/Build system

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Leveraging the ExternalProject module provided by CMake, Slicer SuperBuild system allows developers to quickly install and configure the multiple open-source packages and libraries it depends on.

Versioning

Convention to name Slicer packages.

Release Process

Step-by-step guide to create Slicer release

Factory description

Current configuration of Slicer's factory machines.

Build ExtensionsIndex

How to build an ExtensionsIndex (collection of extension description files) ?

Qt resource files

Describes the genqrc.py tool for automatic generation/updating of Qt resource scripts.

SlicerBot

Describes the SlicerBot and how a machine can be become a SlicerBot.