Ease of use is *critical*. We're already receiving regular feedback that the usability of ROS is getting worse with each distribution. -Ryan On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Ingo Lütkebohle wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Edwards, Shaun M. wrote: >> My main concerns is Geoffrey Biggs' comment below. Tuning should be a dirty >> word in software. I know it's needed, but successful software just works. >> Ease of use should always be our focus. It is this single issue that has >> been the nail in the coffin of every middleware I have used. > > I agree on that. > > One could reasonably argue that the attempt to solve the communication > problem in a relatively application-independent manner is doomed, and > that application-specific protocols are the way to go. Some people may > dismiss that as unrealistic, but I would argue that > application-specific protocols are the IETF approach, and that it has > been fairly successful, so far. > > That said, there is a question of what the basis for such developments > should be, or, in other words, whether the protocols in the DDS family > are a better foundation for robotics applications than base-level > TCP/IP. > > I guess answers to that question will be influenced significantly by > whether you're coming from an enterprise environment, or from an open > systems environment. > > cheers > > -- > Ingo Lütkebohle, Dr.-Ing. > Machine Learning and Robotics Lab, IPVS, Universität Stuttgart > http://www.ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de/abteilungen/mlr/abteilung/mitarbeiter/Ingo.Luetkebohle > +49-711-685-88350 > > PGP Fingerprint 3187 4DEC 47E6 1B1E 6F4F 57D4 CD90 C164 34AD CE5B > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@lists.ros.org > http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users _______________________________________________ ros-users mailing list ros-users@lists.ros.org http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users