Documentation/Labs/AutomaticUpdateAndInstallationFramework

Overview

This page serves as roadmap for the Slicer Automatic Update and Installation framework.

Use cases:

• New Slicer version installed locally should be updated with the list of extensions previously installed.
• Self update of Slicer

Terminology

• User Interface
  • Extensions Manager is a Slicer dialog allowing the user to Search, Install, Remove and disable extensions.
  • ExtensionWizard module: This is a Slicer module providing a graphical interface within Slicer to aid in the creation of Slicer extensions.

• Command line
  • ExtensionWizard is a command line tool to simplify the process of creating and contributing extensions.
    • See also Contribute Extension Description File using Extension Wizard

• API
  • ExtensionsManagerModel: This is the backend of the Extensions Manager displayed to the user
  • Utilities/Scripts/SlicerWizard: This is a python package used in the ExtensionWizard

Convention

Tasks list in this page can be associated with any of these state:

• ToBeDone
• Completed
• In progress

Use case: Keep track of the installed extensions across version

The goal here is to simplify the number of steps allowing people to reinstall extensions that were used in a previous installation.

Progress

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

Meta issue:

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

Completed

NA

Notes

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