Hi, As some of you know ITK, the Insight Toolkit, version 4.0.0 was released last month [1]. This is a major update from the previous version 3.20.1, and upstream deliberately broke the API in certain cases [2].
As such, I think it would be a disservice to our users to force an abrupt transition by uploading ITK 4 and removing ITK 3. Instead, I propose to keep ITK 3.20.1 in Debian and upload a new source package, insighttoolkit4 (or maybe itk4?). The existing binary packages already carry the major version (e.g. libinsightoolkit3-dev) and so can coexist with libinsightoolkit4-dev and the like in the repository (I haven't made up my mind about co-installability). I am in the process of getting a clean build of ITK 4 locally. I think I should succeed this week, so I'd appreciate feedback on the plan before I upload this weekend. Thanks, -Steve [1] http://www.kitware.com/news/home/browse/ITK?2011_12_21&ITK+4.0+is+Now+Available+and+Ready+for+Download! [2] http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/184
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