[Pkg-exppsy-pynifti] [Nipy-devel] Image, design, usecases

[Gael Varoquaux]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:42:05PM -0700, Matthew Brett wrote:
> I'd like people who are afraid of a lapack dependency and a
> currently rather sprawling code-base to have an obvious place to go
> to, to do stuff with images.  Then, if they think that NIPY is doing
> useful things, they'll pick it up.   Meanwhile we don't tie pyMVPA to
> NIPY, for example.

I am starting to think that I'd like a pure-Python 'nipy-base' package
that provides the common objects, and on which people can rely to build
algorithmes. Off course the day this package goes green, we must enforce
backward compatibility very strongly.

It would be useful to serve as a comon layer between Python neuroimaging
tools, and thus help for collaboration. In my vision, it would provide
vimage, with a pure-Python implementation.

Just a thought...

Gaël