pynetdicom release with pydicom 3

[neilferreira]

I would like to utilise some features of pydicom 3 in a new project that primarily relies on pynetdicom. I can see that @medihack has implemented pydicom 3 support in #972

Would it be possible to have a new release of pynetdicom that includes this?

[scaramallion]

Yes, but there are a number of issues I'd like to get to the bottom of before I do a new release. I think technically you can use pydicom 3, you'll probably have to filter out the various deprecation warnings though.

[medihack]

I'm curious about the key challenges you’re facing with the v3 release. I imagine the open issues are tough if they're still on the table. Do you think resolving those could lead to breaking changes? If not, why not go ahead and release v3 now and then tackle those issues in fix releases later on? Just a thought.

[stevewranovsky]

I concur, I've discovered a bug with some decompression in v2 of pydicom that's fixed in v3, and not having a compatible pynetdicom is problematic. Pynetdicom 2.x seems to only allow pydicom versions < v3.

[pcanas]

Hi @scaramallion I wanted to follow up about this update, is there any estimated timeline?

We want to use the compression utility for JPEG2000Losless provided by pydicom v3, but we cannot right now.

[scaramallion]

I'll probably do something soon, but I'd like to resolve at #912 first