Re: How can I get updates of ImageJ automatically ?

Posted by dscho on Oct 12, 2009; 11:50am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/How-can-I-get-updates-of-ImageJ-automatically-tp3690836p3690840.html

Hi,

On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Gabriel Landini wrote:

> I do not know if there is also an ImageJ (i.e. not "A") git project.

To the best of my knowledge, there is not.

> But in any case (I hope I got this right), ImageJA is not automatically
> updated with the daily build changes. I think Johannes incorporates
> these every so often (although this is *very* often).

To make this a bit more explicit: I will include changes from the daily
version (or our automatic version of that, downloaded from ImageJ's
website several times a day, stored in the 'current' branch) upon demand.

So if you say "I need the feature X Wayne implemented in the daily build
already, in Fiji" I will include it.

I try to merge the releases from Wayne every once in a while, and the
plan is to do it as close to Wayne's release cycle as possible.  The
'imagej' branch is a pure side effect of that endeavor.

> Alternatively, in linux, you can download the ImageJ daily build source from
> Wayne's site with the following script:
>
>  #!/bin/bash
> wget -r -np rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/source/
>
> but you would not see what are the version differences, obviously.
> I hope it helps.

As I said, this is the 'current' branch of ImageJA.git.  There is
unfortunately no good way to connect this 'current' branch with the
'imagej' branch (from time to time, they should be identical, but there
are subtle differences).  As soon as I will have some time to play with
this more, I will try to come up with some automated way to see the
relationship between the revisions on 'current' and the ones on 'imagej'.

Ciao,
Dscho