[ome-devel] Bio-Formats scifio branch merged to develop & master

[Curtis Rueden]

Hi everyone,

Today we have merged the scifio branch of bio-formats.git to develop and
master. There is a new component in components/scifio.

This splits Bio-Formats into two parts: SCIFIO core, and Bio-Formats.

The SCIFIO core ("SCientific Image Formats Input and Output") represents
the core infrastructure for file format readers and writers, as well as
open reader, writer and codec implementations.

The remaining Bio-Formats classes represent proprietary file format (PFF)
implementations for life sciences and microscopy in particular.

The SCIFIO project is continuing on the scifio-refactor branch; see:
      http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/ticket/7076

For any projects using loci_tools.jar, effectively nothing has changed.

For any projects using bio-formats.jar, you will now need to include an
additional dependency, scifio.jar, in your classpath as well. If you use
Maven, it is probably sufficient to reference scifio as a compile-time
dependency, and bio-formats as a runtime one, unless you rely on specific
PFF classes directly (in which case you will need to keep bio-formats as a
compile-time dependency too).

Please let us know if you have any questions or issues about it!

Regards,
Curtis
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