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Re: DCM4CHE -- could someone update on the status?



On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko
<debian@onerussian.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> > - there are few subprojects listed in
>> >   http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/imaging
>> >   with some packaging specified as available
>
>> svn://svn.debian.org/debian-med/trunk/packages/dcm4che/dcm4che-core/trunk/
>
> cool -- thanks!
>
>> > - not a single ITP filed
>
>> I for myself established the workflow to issue an ITP only of I really
>> *know* that I will be able to finish the packaging.
>
> well -- I usually do the opposite so to avoid unlikely but possible
> duplication of effort and simplifying search for thinking-alike ;)
> But oh well -- that is just my "approach" ;)
>
>
>> > - last activity on the debian-med list was in 2012
>> >   http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2012/03/msg00227.html
>
>> I guess this is really the last news.  I never made it through the maven
>> jungle.
>
> yeah -- scares me as well... but I have heard that maven builds support
> improves slowly but steadily -- so might be better now
>
>
>> > so if someone could summarize on the current status and possibly hurdles
>> > that would be great.
>
>> The first stumbling stone when I started with dcm4che-core was a lacking
>> jai-imageio.  This is solved in non-free (and chances that this will
>> become free are close to zero if I have understood the issue correctly).
>> So dcm4che will propagate to contrib at best.  If I remember right than
>> several other preconditions will be needed.
>
> and that is only because of JPEG2000 or generic dependency? (I meant may
> be there could be a cut-down 'main' build)?

Both lossless JPEG and JPEG 2000 are provided in these non-free libs.
Those two codecs are extremely important in the clinical world as
DICOM tends to be compressed these days.


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