Re: ImageJ development involvement/contributions

Posted by Frederic V. Hessman on Dec 14, 2009; 2:34pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/ImageJ-development-involvement-contributions-tp3690030p3690034.html

> 2) Pursuing 100% backward compatibility is not tenable in the long  
> run. What we can do is to start up an new PluginPlus or whatever  
> interface, and not touch the old ones. With time we can depreciate  
> the old Plugin  interface so that the development will turn  
> gradually to the new pattern. So at this point I agree with Raymond.

If the new data model is flexible enough (and it better be), then it  
may be feasible to make things  like ImagePlus a particular sub-class  
of SuperDuperImage, in which case most plugins may work with  
practically no changes.  The ImagePlus/ImageStack/HyperStack/....  
model is very primitive, after all.  I

'm not complaining, just thinking about what would be possible if  
ImageJ supported all the data models and world coordinate systems of  
just the FITS standard (generalized hyperstacks, highly non-linear  
coordinates, all known map-projections).

Rick