pys4ext

A collection of command-line tools to manage extension sources

• slicer_extensions_index_checkout.py: Download and update extension source checkouts associated with extension description files.

Motivations

Provide a simple interface to download extensions sources without relying on the more complex extensions index build system.

Usage

cd ~/Projects
git clone git://github.com/Slicer/ExtensionsIndex.git
git clone git://github.com/jcfr/ps4ext.git
mkvirtualenv pys4ext
cd pys4ext
pip install -r requirements.txt
./slicer_extensions_index_checkout.py ../ExtensionsIndex ../ExtensionsSource

Glossary

• extension description file: It is a text file with *.s4ext extension allowing to specify metadata associated with a Slicer extension. See spec for complete list of metadata.

• extensions index: It is a repository containing a list of extension description files *.s4ext. These files are used by the Slicer extensions build system to build, test, package and upload extensions on the extensions server. See https://github.com/Slicer/ExtensionsIndex/