[MINC-users] Official Installation Instructions

[Andrew Janke]

Hi all,

First let me say I have nothing but thanks for the work that Vlad is
putting into the binary builds. I am only too aware of the amount of
work that this takes.

So, that said. I think we need to set some sort of process/rules on
how such releases are made. Especially if newer releases of this
depart from old behaviour, I for one am very much against hidden
changes in analysis behaviour (N3 -> N4) that will change peoples
results.

So, the decision needs to be made on which and where the official
packages are. I do have mincbundle (the old style of ubuntu/debian)
packages but have been loathe to release them if only to reduce
confusion. In the past the packages I have built have always been
focused entirely on preserving behaviour (from a data analysis point
of view).

Still I see this going one of a few ways, currently the situation is like this:

1) The latest MINC development is always on github

2) Stable releases are on packages.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/tgz

3) Vlad has done an enormous amount of work building us all nice packages here:

   http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ServicesSoftware/ServicesSoftwareMincToolKit

I'm open to suggestions as to how we manages this but for now I'll
continue to apply patches to github. We are due for the next release
of MINC (2.2) but I still have a few more manual pages to write before
this happens. At this point there will be a new (source) release on
packages.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/tgz.

So, Pierre by all means update the MINC wikibook but perhaps we need
to make a distinction between what people can expect from binary
builds and "official" source packages.

Thanks all!


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On 5 July 2012 10:39, Pierre Bellec <pierre.bellec at criugm.qc.ca> wrote:
> Fantastic work Vladimir. I will definitely try running analysis with your
> new packages and keep you posted. Thanks for all of your efforts to make
> MINC easier to install. I will update the instructions on the MINC wiki
> book.