[Pkg-exppsy-pynifti] PyNIfTI is the past -- NiBabel is the future

[Michael Hanke]

Dear PyNIfTI users,

you have probably noticed that development of PyNIfTI has stalled. The
reason is simple: PyNIfTI has been replaced by NiBabel

  http://nipy.sourceforge.net/nibabel

NiBabel has numerous advantages over PyNIfTI:

* it is pure Python -- no need to compile extensions anymore
* it support the NIfTI standard better than PyNIfTI
* it support more data formats: ANALYZE, NIfTI, MINC, PAR/REC, GIFTI
  and there is initial DICOM support as well
* more than one developer is working on NiBabel

For all these reasons I strongly recommend you to switch to NiBabel.
The support mailing list for NiBabel can be reached at
nipy-devel at neuroimaging.scipy.org. Subscription and archive links can be
found on the NiBabel website. NiBabel is available as a NeuroDebian
package

  http://neuro.debian.net/pkgs/python-nibabel.html

and from pypi:

  http://pypi.python.org/pypi/nibabel

If there is anything that NiBabel cannot do for you, but was possible
with PyNIfTI -- please let us know (by posting to the above mailing
list).


Thanks for having used PyNIfTI and starting to use NiBabel,

Michael



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