Hi, I was so excited that I gave it a try, unluckily it doesn't compile due to the presence of ROS_ERROR macro which seems to be undefined in the standalone. I will put a ticket. -- Nizar SALLEM Robotics and Artificial Intelligence PhD student LAAS-CNRS 7, Avenue Colonel Roche 31077 Toulouse CEDEX 4 FRANCE On Dec 21, 2010, at 9:51 AM, Radu Bogdan Rusu wrote: > > On 12/21/2010 12:37 AM, Marius Muja wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> We are happy to announce the release of PCL 0.7 > > And just to continue with our goofy add-hoc release naming scheme (post 0.5), let's call this one: Special "FLANN is > awesome" edition, as we attribute most of the algorithmic speedups to Marius! :) > > > One more note: we also released perception_pcl_addons 0.2 (http://www.ros.org/wiki/perception_pcl_addons/ChangeList) > which brings a lot of internal optimizations for speed + some new functionality to all the PCL Visualizer users. > > > The next target is 0.8, and we'll start changing things a bit... one one hand we'll try to do a website organization > with a proper wish list, bugs to fix, etc, so that more people can contribute, and on the other, we'll start dropping > support for deprecated/unused classes/methods and prepare for the API review. > > One of the first things that we need to deprecate is the pcl_ros::Publisher/Subscriber. Thanks to Patrick's amazing > work, we now have the possibility to reuse the ros::Publisher/Subscriber for pcl::PointCloud datasets. This means: > * within the same process, we will just copy the pcl::PointCloud::ConstPtr > * between different processes, we will send the pcl::PointCloud::ConstPtr, but with the same MD5 sum as > sensor_msgs::PointCloud2 + extra logic, which means all sensor_msgs/PointCloud2 consumers will be able to consume > pcl::PointCloud directly > > > Also many many thanks to Troy for pushing the new library structure (99% done, still some work to do for 0.8), which > improves things dramatically for user code compiled against PCL. Between 0.5 and 0.7 we managed to drop the memory usage > during compilation from 1.3GB to ~650MB / process, which is FANTASTIC! The remaining work includes refactoring some of > the internal ROS dependencies such as message_filters, or dynamic_reconfigure, which might take some time. > > > And as Marius said, many many thanks to all the contributors and users! I'm sure we forgot some names, but they know who > they are! > > > Cheers, > Radu. > -- > http://pointclouds.org > _______________________________________________ > PCL-users@code.ros.org / http://pointclouds.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/pcl-users