2024.07.16 Weekly Meeting

[jcfr (Jean Christophe Fillion Robin (Kitware))]

Meeting notes

• Telemetry

  • Progress toward creating the fontend
  • Will soon publish a branch onto GitHub - Slicer/slicer-usage-stats: Source code of the site allowing to visualize Slicer application and extensions usage statistics.

• CLI executable terminates with fault due to incompatible system C++ redistributable · Issue #7847 · Slicer/Slicer · GitHub

  • Evaluate if setting _DISABLE_CONSTEXPR_MUTEX_CONSTRUCTOR helps

  • If does not work, may update dashboard script to ensure specific toolset is selected.

    For example:

    dashboard_set(CTEST_CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET "v142,version=14.28")
    

  • Related discussion, see Developer Community

  • Note: Qt 6.8 will ship only for VS 2022. See Moving to Microsoft Visual C/C++ (MSVC) compiler 2022 in Qt 6.8 packages. Please test this on Qt 6.7

• https://py-free-threading.github.io/

• Extension tier support

  • Add support for extension tiers PR Slicer#7748

  • Server / Python Client: Add support for extension “tier” metadata PR girder/slicer_package_manager#124

  • To do

    • Update qSlicerExtensionsManagerWidget
    • Update web application KitwareMedical/slicer-extensions-webapp

  • We revisited the definition of tiers and updated the post accordingly.

    • Tier 5: Critically important extensions, supported by Slicer core developers
    • Tier 3: Community-supported extensions.
    • Tier 1: Experimental extensions