Goal of “SlicerVerse” (“Slicer universe”) is to offer custom Slicer distributions built on the same Slicer core but pre-configuret for specific applications ( Communities / “SlicerVerse” ). It is important to decide how much these custom distributions should be separated from the vanilla Slicer distr…

[image] ihnorton: My $.02 is that it would be ideal to package these distributions from a single official nightly If we customize the application name then it has to be a rebuild (at least of the application components) not just a repackaging, but we can reuse all the pre-built dependencies, …

[image] lassoan: If we customize the application name then it has to be a rebuild (at least of the application components) not just a repackaging, but we can reuse all the pre-built dependencies, so it wouldn’t be a big burden. I was basically envisioning a customized launcher name only (mayb…

[image] ihnorton: If we customize the application name then it has to be a rebuild (at least of the application components) not just a repackaging, but we can reuse all the pre-built dependencies, so it wouldn’t be a big burden. I was basically envisioning a customized launcher name only (maybe…

Currently we have an extension and that works well. I’m not sure why all SlicerVerse packages need a custom full Slicer installation (distribution). If the name becomes distribution, this is implied, but I don’t think it has to be a requirement for everything. It seems like more to maintain. Thought…

I’ve checked the code and indeed application name is not hardcoded anywhere but it is determined from the application executable name at startup. So, you can get quite close to a usable solution using CustomSlicerGenerator. However, there are two limitations: CustomSlicerGenerator does not give yo…

Agree. I’m happy with SlicerDMRI as an extension for now too.

I agree with Lauren. We should not force our users to create custom distributions of Slicer. Extensions are fine. However, all extensions cant be considered Slicer Distributions. This falls along a definition of what constitutes a SlicerDistribution. We talked about the fact it needs to be customi…

[image] ljod: I’m not sure why all SlicerVerse packages need a custom full Slicer installation (distribution). What do you mean by a “SlicerVerse package”? Options existing today: User downloads standard Slicer installer and installs extensions manually. Custom installers (have custom appl…

[image] bpaniagua: SlicerCMF and Salt as their own packages What is a SlicerCMF and Salt package? A custom installer? Does it use a custom application name (custom settings, etc)? How you distribute it? How do you update it? Does it have access to the extension manager?

[image] lassoan: CustomSlicerGenerator does not give you an installer package. We cannot just dump a zip file on the user (at least on Windows it doesn’t work). What do you mean we cant dump a zip file on the user? We have done that in the past, and people has had no problem using the unzippe…

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