- Update external projects to later/latest versions
- Change as many external projects as possible from downloads to Git clones
Progress:
| External project | Clone from official repo | Clone from fork | Upstream pull request | Version update | Notes
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ANN | | {icon info-circle} | | | {icon info-circle} Technically not a fork since the original source code only exists as [[https://www.cs.umd.edu/~mount/ANN/ | archive from 2010]]. Patch is mainly of a CMake build system. |
| CppUnit | | {icon check} | | | Patch is a CMake build system. |
| Qwt | | {icon check} | | v6.1.5 {icon arrow-right} v6.2.0 | Patch is mainly a CMake build system. |
| ITK | | {icon check} | [[https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK/pull/3527 | 3527]] | | |
| Ceres Solver | | {icon check} | | | External project of eMITK. |