[MINC-development] minc 2.2.00

[Sean McBride]

On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:22:36 -0400, Andrew Janke said:

>I am at the BIC for a few days so Vladimir and myself have taken it
>upon ourselves to get MINC integrated into ITK a whole lot better (and
>easier) than it currently is. What this means is that we are now
>working on breaking MINC up into a library component (libminc) and
>minc-tools as per how the debian packages that Steve Robbins builds.
>This will make for an easier ITK/MINC integration and hopefully make
>things easier for things like python + minc.
>
>One of the major things we will do as part of this is attempt to make
>a libMINC that is MINC2 only and removes all the netCDF bits. This
>will mean a lot of code in volume_io will need to shift into MINC 2
>proper (xfms, tags, etc). Of course this will be done as an option to
>the build process.
>
>So, comments?

+1 for ITK support!

Maybe I misunderstand the last paragraph, but I hope said ITK reader be able to read both MINC1 and MINC2 files?  At least optionally.  Being able to optionally exclude the NetCDF dependency could be helpful to getting your MINCReader into ITK proper since, IIRC, ITK already includes HDF5 but not NetCDF. 

Cheers,

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