[ImageJ-devel] 'Freeze' button

[Curtis Rueden]

Hi Michael,

> It is quite hard to define the state of the program when you have to
> describe it in a scientific paper, because there aren't atomic
> versions easily accessible to users, which encapsulate the entire
> state of the IJ system.

I agree completely, and filed ticket #1987 to record the need for this:

    http://trac.imagej.net/ticket/1987

Regards,
Curtis


On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 5:16 AM, Michael Doube <michael at doube.net> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> One of the things which has bugged me for a while about Fiji in
> particular and which might affect IJ2 is that it is quite hard to define
> the state of the program when you have to describe it in a scientific
> paper, because there aren't atomic versions easily accessible to users,
> which encapsulate the entire state of the IJ system.
>
> You could, I suppose, go to Help > ImageJ and get the IJ and Java
> versions, and then go to Help > About plugins and get some information.
> But, that relies on plugin authors including a method containing that
> info, which they often don't do.
>
> Further, what happens when libraries are changing in the back end, which
> don't relate to those version numbers, but which those plugins might
> use? Or when they use methods from other classes unbeknown to the user?
>
> In other words, if you want to repeat the experiment, how do you restore
> the conditions and get the code configuration back? Is copying the whole
> Fiji.app directory the only way?
>
> I am imagining a Git-like hash which relates to a unique configuration
> and which anyone can reproduce by entering the same hash - like checking
> out a commit, you would check out a config.
>
> Michael
>
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