Hi Tully,

First off, Is there any chance that there could be some sort of
additional mailing list/RSS feed for announcements like this that change
functionality for most users?  I subscribe to all the mailing lists, and
really important messages like this one tend to get lost in the noise.
Actually, even a [Announcement] tag after the normal [ros-users] might
do...

secondly, I'd like to point out that the output of rosinstall still
says:
"
done. Now, type 'source /somepath/setup.sh' to set up your environment.
Add that to the bottom of your ~/.bashrc to set it up every time.
"
If we are moving to support other shells, shouldn't this be changed? It
would have certainly caught my eye if it was:

Add 'source /somepath/setup.bash' to your ~/.bashrc if you are using
bash shell
add 'source /somepath/setup.zsh' to your ~/.tzrc if you are using zsh
shell (or whatever the config file is named...)

Or, given that you can find which shell is being used, just print the
relevant setup suffix...

thanks,
Garratt



On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 15:35 -0800, Tully Foote wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As of rosinstall version 0.5.12 it will no longer use bashisms in the 
> setup.sh file.  They have been moved to setup.bash.  And for zsh users 
> there is also a setup.zsh generated.
> 
> For existing bash users this will mean that until you switch to use 
> setup.bash instead of setup.sh you will not have the command line tools 
> you are used to such as rosrun roscd and tab completion.
> 
> This was ticketed at https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/2860
> 
> I have tried to update references on the wiki.  If you run into one I 
> missed please update it to reference setup.bash, unless the reference is 
> for a specific different shell.
> 
> A similar change will be made in the /opt/ros/ROSDISTRO/setup.sh will be 
> seperated to setup.sh for environment and setup.bash for bash specific 
> calls.  TIcketed at https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/3243
> 
> Tully
> 
> 
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