Documentation/Labs/AutomaticUpdateAndInstallationFramework

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Overview

This page serves as roadmap for the Slicer Automatic Update and Installation framework.

Use cases:

  • New Slicer version installed locally should be updated with the list of extensions previously installed.
  • Self update of Slicer

Terminology

  • User Interface
    • Extensions Manager is a Slicer dialog allowing the user to Search, Install, Remove and disable extensions.
    • ExtensionWizard module: This is a Slicer module providing a graphical interface within Slicer to aid in the creation of Slicer extensions.



Convention

Tasks listed in this page can be associated with any of these state:

  • ToBeDone
  • Check.svg Completed
  • In progress

Use case: Keep track of the installed extensions across version

The goal here is to simplify the number of steps allowing people to reinstall extensions that were used in a previous installation.

Current Process

Proposed Changed

Progress

  • Extract list of extensions installed. Look at npm for the format. ToBeDone
  • Extension manager:
    • Update ExtensionManageModel API so that "list" can be processed ToBeDone
    • Update entry "Install Extension from file" to "Install Extensions from file" and support "tar.gz", ".json" ToBeDone

Meta issue:

  • 2779: Mechanism to keep track of the installed extensions across version ToBeDone

Completed

NA


Notes

2016.05.03

  • Serialize what is installed in you current Slicer