Support Policy

Support Policy for CamiTK project dependencies and toolchain

This document lists the tool chain and dependencies that are currently maintained (and recommended) for using CamiTK in a stable development environment.

Operating Systems

The CamiTK project team is currently using the following platforms on a daily/regular basis (all these platforms are used during continuous integration):

Linux
- the latest stable version of Debian (aka Debian stable or stable, currently Debian 12 bookworm). It is the base of many distributions
- the latest LTS version of ubuntu (aka Ubuntu LTS or LTS, currently Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - Noble Numbat): it is one of the most used distribution among developers and is also the base of many other distributions
Windows
- Windows 11: it is the dominent OS on desktop computers and some drivers are only supported on Windows (and also there is not really any other version of Windows on the market!). The latest available major version should be supported.

MacOS is known to work, but there is unfortunately no simple way of maintaining a proper/automatic CI system for MacOS.

Toolchain

The following toolchain is used by the CamiTK team:

What	Tool
Application Lifecycle Management	gitlab
Source Versioning	git (in gitlab)
Configuration & Build	CMake
Automatic test	CMake
Test report and dashboard	CDash and gitlab, gitlab-runner inside dockers (for both Linux and Windows)
C++ Compiler	Linux = gcc Windows = msvc
Packager	Debian package (.deb), zip archive
Source distribution	gitlab
Binary distribution	camitk website

C++ Standard version

The latest CXX standard version supported by CamiTK is C++20.

CMake version

The minimum required version of CMake is 3.20. CMake versions up to 3.30 were tested and are known to work. Newer versions should work as well (although they might produce some warnings).

Libraries

The following list are the libraries dependencies required by the four CamiTK Community Edition CEP:

SDK

Name	Min Version(s)
Qt	>= 5.15.2
VTK	>= 9.1
XSD Code Synthesis	>= 4.0.0

xerces-c == 3.2 is itself a dependency of xsdcxx, and therefore is also required

Imaging CEP

Name	Min Version(s)
ITK	>= 5.3.0
gdcm	>= 3.0.21

Modeling CEP

This CEP has no external dependencies.

Tutorials CEP

This CEP has no external dependencies.

Validation Status Table

This table present all the toolchain and dependencies that are currently used in the CI docker images or that have been manually tested and certified to work.

Category	Name	OS	Version	Manual Validation	CI pipeline Validation
Toolchain	git	stable	2.39.2	OK	OK
		LTS	2.43.0	OK	OK
		Windows	2.45.2	OK	OK
	CMake	stable	3.25.1	OK	OK
		LTS	3.28.3	OK	OK
		Windows	3.30.1	OK	OK
	gitlab-runner	Linux	15.10.1	N/A	OK
		Windows	17.2.1	N/A	OK
	gcc	stable	12.2.0	OK	OK
		LTS	13.2.0	OK	OK
	clang	LTS	18.1.3	OK	not used in CI
	MSVC++ / cl	Windows	19.40.33813 (Visual Studio 2022, BuildTools 17.10)¹	OK	OK
	ninja	stable	1.11.1	OK	OK
		LTS	1.11.1	OK	OK
		Windows	1.12.1	OK	OK
SDK Libraries	Qt	stable	5.15.8	OK	OK
		LTS	5.15.13	OK	OK
		Windows	5.15.2	OK	OK
	VTK	stable	9.1.0	OK	OK
		LTS	9.1.0	OK	OK
		Windows	9.3.1	OK	OK
	xerces-c	stable	3.2.4	OK	OK
		LTS	3.2.4	OK	OK
		Windows	3.2.5	OK	OK
	xsd cxx	stable	4.0.0	OK	OK
		LTS	4.0.0	OK	OK
		Windows	4.2.0	OK	OK
Imaging CEP Libraries	ITK	stable	5.2.1	OK	OK
		LTS	5.3.0	OK	OK
		Windows	5.4rc04	OK	OK
	gdcm	stable	3.0.21	OK	OK
		LTS	3.0.24	OK	OK
		Windows	3.0.24	OK	OK

¹ Identifying the MSVC++ / cl compiler version (as an independent tool from Visual Studio) is difficult. See the wikipedia article, Microsoft Visual Studio workload and component IDs Microsoft documentation, the C++ build tools in the Visual Studio Build Tools component directory and Microsoft Visual Studio release notes for more information

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