[Vv] trying to install vv on MacOSX yosemite: ITK problem

[David Boersma]

Hello vv!

I am trying to install vv on a Mac, following the homebrew instructions.
The first part (brew install vtk --qt) worked well, the second part 
failed. With the --HEAD option I ran into an error saying that the git 
server suddenly broke contact. Repeating the install command did not fix 
this. So I decided to try the release version instead (omitting the 
--HEAD flag). The download part worked, and 30% of the compile, but then 
the build failed because the "itkAnalyzeImageIO.h" header file is not 
found. The insight toolkit is installed (homebrew), but it is version 
4.7, maybe that is too new? The vv says that itk should be >=3.2, would 
it help if I try to install the latest 3.x version of ITK?

Also I see that there is not much recent activity on vv. Is this 
software still alive and healthy, with a sufficiently large crowd of 
developers and users? I am new in radiation therapy & medical imaging 
and I need to learn about image registration. I am coming from a field 
where we do everything with open source software, so I think I would 
feel more at home with vv than with some closed source medical imaging 
program.

I have a linux server available too (ubuntu 14.04, 12 cores, 24GiB RAM, 
and iirc an NVIDIA quadro 600 graphics card), will try to build vv on 
that machine next week.

Thanks!
David Boersma