Slicer 5.0 deprecation discussion/wiki

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

I realized that the code associated with these two CLI modules BlobDetection and ConnectedComponent have NOT been compiled since r20744 (from August 2010).

The commit message indicates:

ENH: remove BlobDetection and other CLI modules as requested

Associated issue was:

• #2809: Create extensions for BlobDetection and ConnectedComponent module

And a excerpt from @pieper reply from on the slicer-devel mailing list thread entitled Re: Adding new modules to Slicer core? :

I haven’t looked at this in detail, but I think the module has the potential for wide utility, but since it’s currently disabled it’s not yet widely used. It also seems that it doesn’t have documentation, which is probably why it is currently disabled. So yes, for now I think BlobDetection and the related module ConnectedComponent should move to an extension (as should a few other specialized modules). We should probably make this a group project at some point, but as we discussed on yesterday’s call performance optimization and ITKv4 are higher priorities right now

Based on the information I found, I will submit a PR removing the modules today and plan on integrating it tomorrow.

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