On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Ken Conley wrote: > 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. Sounds good. --  joq