Hi, On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 02:20:42AM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Tue, September 12, 2006 21:37, Michael Hanke wrote: > > I'm packaging a DICOM -> NIfTI converter which uses the CTN library. I > > had to discover that the converter does not work on AMD64 machine, while > > everything is ok on i386. > > Thanks for your report. I've heard some other (more casual) comments > about 64-bit incompatibilities before. I've passed these on to upstream, > upstream has been promising a new release for over a year now but to no > avail. > > Since the current packaged version is from 2002 and has a number of > other problems, I'm quite inclined to *not* release ctn with etch unless > there's new upstream work. I think this is the extra drop that was > needed to take that decision. > > Of course, anyone willing to hack on CTN to bring it up to speed with > current environments is welcome. But I think at this point it's not that > sensible to try to keep CTN alive in Debian without upstream support or > other longer-time commitments to code maintenance; especially since the > popcon numbers are not impressive and I don't use it myself anymore. > > I'm cc'ing this to debian-med; maybe someone there is interested in > reviving CTN. If a release manager reads this - CTN can be removed from > testing for the time being. Really sad news. As you might know I'm working on getting a whole toolchain for (medical-imaging|neuroscience) research into Debian. One key feature is of course a converter that moves the data from the scanner into a useful dataformat. I think this is NIfTI.
The make the story short, the best converter that I know of depends on CTN. Upstream rereleased it under the GPL (for Debian main), several bugfixes are on the way, but this might be the end!? I haven't looked at the CTN package, but I also think that it is a heavy job to maintain it without upstream. Do you know, by any chance, some good candidate to replace CTN? I do not really care for the console tools, but for the library itself. Cheers, Michael -- GPG key: 1024D/3144BE0F Michael Hanke http://apsy.gse.uni-magdeburg.de/hanke ICQ: 48230050 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
