QtAugust2010/Deployment Process

Slicer Deployment

Proposed user-experience for releasing slicer executables and modules:

• Slicer executables will be downloaded from the Slicer website. This will include .exe for windows, .dmg for mac and .rpm .deb for linux. We will have 32 and 64 bit versions. There will be a second URL for mirroring. The same will be the case for those extensions, which can be installed from within Slicer using the extension manager.
• The Slicer dashboards will show and identify the machines which are used to compile the downloadable slicer executables. The SVN numbers (or the git equivalent) for the day will be the same for all versions of Slicer executables and the plugins and will be in sync with the updates on the dashboard.
  • So on 7-22, for example, the svn # will be 15434 for all versions of the nightly build. The 'files changed' line at the top of the dashboard will reflect the changes since the equivalent on 7-21. etc.
• We need to pay more attention to windows.