Re: Bug#793392: ITP: dcmtkpp -- Wrappers around DCMTK to have an easier API
Hi Julien,
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 06:09:10PM +0200, Julien Lamy wrote:
> Would you agree with the following modifications?
>
> Short description: C++ wrapper library for DCMTK (DICOM toolkit)
>
> Long description:
> DCMTK++ is a wrapper library for DCMTK, a toolkit handling the DICOM
> medical imaging standard. DCMTK++ leverages C++ constructs to provide a
> more user-friendly API, notably for the networking part. Included in
> DCMTK++ are exception-based error handling, generic access to datasets
> elements, standard JSON representation of datasets, and generic
> implementation of messages, clients and servers for the various DICOM
> protocols.
>
> Other relevant information:
> Compared to the two main free-software C++ DICOM toolkits (DCMTK and
> GDCM), DCMTK++ provides either additional features (generic
> implementation of DICOM servers, missing from GDCM) and a modern C++ API
> (missing from DCMTK). We think that developers of DICOM application
> would benefit from DCMTK++, in term of code readability and ease of
If you intend to include the second paragraph in the long description
as well, please drop the "Other relevant information:" and replace the
"We think" by some phrasing that does not use first person (lintian
would tell you anyway ;-)). Alternatively you could add the second
paragraph to a README.Debian (according to your preference).
Kind regards
Andreas.
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