Soma-IO documentation

Soma-IO: IO system.

Provided libraries and commands:

• soma-io library

Requirements:

The soma-io library now needs the following libraries installed on the compiling system:

• libsigc++ 2.0 or newer: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libsigc/
• libxml2: http://xmlsoft.org/

Optionally, the followng libraries may be used if available:

• boost: http://boost.org for thread-safe reference counters
• it also relies on the cartobase library, which is part of the same package.

Building:

Use CMake, a cross-platform and open-source build system. More information on The BrainVISA-cmake build system. See also this page on BrainVISA website.

Main contents:

• namespace: soma
• commandline options parsing system: OptionsParser and CartoApplication
• IO system: DataSource, DataSourceList, Reader, Writer, DataSourceInfo ReaderAlgorithm
• Allocators system
• STL-like containers:
  • vectors using extended allocators: AllocatedVector
• plugins system: Plugin, PluginManager, PluginLoader
• other general utility classes, functions and macros:
  • libraries information printing: Info

Other programming rules and notes:

• Keeping Portability
• Change Log