2015 Summer Project Week:Python scripts from command line

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  Projects List

Key Investigators

• Andrey Fedorov, BWH
• Steve Pieper, Isomics
• Robin Weiss, U. Chicago
• Artem Mamonov, MGH

Project Description

Objective

• discuss the approach and the effort involved to allow running Slicer python scripts without the need of X11
• identify how important is this issue, and how limiting are the proposed workarounds

Approach, Plan

• identify use cases
• identify difficulties
• identify workarounds or proper solution and effort involved

Progress

• see this and this discussion threads for background information
  • essentially, the solution is to install Xvfb that virtualizes X11
• Raul's solution: implement functionality outside Slicer and make it independent from get-go, then provide GUI integration with Slicer as an add-on
  • drawback: cannot reuse Slicer modules logic, IO tools