On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Brian Gerkey wrote: > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Jack O'Quin wrote: >> Is there no longer a $ROS_ROOT/tools directory? I use them to find >> things like rosemacs and rosbash in a distribution-agnostic fashion. >> >> I see rosbash has moved to share/rosbash. Still can't find rosemacs >> (only its manifest.xml). > > We preserved certain parts of the old layout for backward > compatibility, notably: > * $ROS_ROOT/core/roslib/src/* > * $ROS_ROOT/core/rosbuild/* > * $ROS_ROOT/mk/rosbuild/* > > rosbash didn't make the cut because it's usually only included by > generated files, and we're updating those to use `rospack find > rosbash/rosbash instead. > > rosemacs looks to have been dropped on the ground.  We're installing > its manifest.xml, but none of its files.  That's clearly wrong.  Would > it be sufficient to install all files from rosemacs to share/rosemacs/ Not dropped, just waiting for migration. The plan is to make rosemacs separately downloadable. rosemacs gets incremental improvements that are, by and large, independent of a particular ROS distribution. i.e. there's no reason for my emacs bindings to get worse just because I am using an older distro. - Ken > ? > >        brian.