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== High level requirements discussed at the February 2006 meetings in Clifton Park ==
 
 
 
=== General Requirements ===
 
 
 
* User interface will be single threaded
 
* Cross session state
 
* Tracing
 
* Algorithms can be multi-threaded
 
* Undo/Redo
 
* Guaranteed performance
 
* Exceptions vs events vs error messages
 
* Events are more robust
 
* MRML
 
** Independent of vtk/itk
 
** Is it a Slicer project or for a larger community
 
* Handling of meta data
 
** Mixture of vtk/itk + mrml
 
** Mrml only
 
 
 
=== Requirements - Languages ===
 
 
 
* Scripting language
 
** Not in Slicer base
 
** But should be wrappable
 
** Modules can use whatever
 
*** C++ preferred
 
*** Tcl, python, shell scripts allowed
 
* Programming language – C++
 
* Data model – MRML
 
* Module description language – JSON XML ??
 
 
 
=== Requirements - Toolkits ===
 
 
 
* UI toolkit – kwwidgets
 
* System toolkit – kwsys
 
** May need enhancements
 
** Sockets, pipes …
 
* Logging
 
** ??
 
* Imaging/Segmentation/Registration toolkit – itk2.x
 
* Visualization toolkit – vtk5.x
 
* Structured Image I/O – itk IO factory
 
** Headerless – nrrd, meta
 
* DICOM
 
** gdcm
 
* DICOM Query/Retrieve
 
** dcmtk
 
* Other dataset I/O – vtk
 
* Containers - Standard template library
 
** Level of exposure
 
* Command line parser
 
** Candidates
 
*** Tclap
 
*** meta
 
*** Kwsys
 
*** Cli
 
 
 
=== Requirements - Software Engineering ===
 
 
 
* System build – CMake
 
* System test – Dart 2/CTest
 
* System packaging - CPack
 
* Style
 
* Kwstyle
 
** Each toolkit will use its own style
 
** Slicer
 
*** Vtk/itk
 
* Documentation
 
** Object Classes with doxygen style
 
** Word/Powerpoint
 
** Courseware
 
** Powerpoint/html
 
* Future Issuse
 
** Process
 
** Backward compatibility
 
** Software Review process
 

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