NA-MIC/Projects/NA-MIC Kit/CPack - NAMIC Kit Distribution

Objective:

The purpose of CPack is to enable cross-platform packaging and distribution of software. Packaging software across multiple platforms has been a difficult, error prone and time consuming process. CPack is an adjunct component of CMake that addresses this issue. It uses the concept of generators from CMake, where a generator abstracts the platform specific packaging issues. It then produces native package distributions such as RPMs (Linux) and Windows installers.

Progress:

CPack is a relatively young software tool whose development was initiated in the second year of NA-MIC funding. The third year saw several features added. This includes:

• Deployment across the community including Slicer3 packaging.
• Addition of new packaging generators including
  • Cygwin
  • BZip2
  • Old-style Unix compress
  • Special Mac OSC X11 generator
• Provided improved support for non-CMake projects (i.e., projects not configured with CMake)
• Enhancements to existing generators
  • Addressed issues related to Mac OSX generator

Key Investigators:

• Kitware: Andy Cedilnik, Bill Hoffman

Links:

• http://www.cmake.org
• http://nsis.sourceforge.net
• http://developer.apple.com/documentation/developertools/Conceptual/SoftwareDistribution/index.html