Been facing an issue with SSE and ARM for some time either. Not mentioning libboost... On 2/20/14, Arkapravo Bhaumik wrote: > Agree on the redundancy of packages (read xkcd zindabad) and the boost > issues ! Have faced serious boost issues. > > > On 20 February 2014 18:36, Michael Fritscher < > michael.fritscher@telematik-zentrum.de> wrote: > >> Hallo everybody, >> >> just my 2 cents: >> >> In my oppinion, the ROS core is fairly well documented and quite useable >> - >> both for beginners and advanced users. The problem are in my oppinion >> many >> of the packages. Most of the packages are more or less drivers for robots >> or middleware things. But even e.g. on the usb camera side there are at >> least 5 different drivers (see http://www.iheartrobotics.com/ >> 2010/05/testing-ros-usb-camera-drivers.html and >> http://pharos.ece.utexas.edu/wiki/index.php/How_to_Use_a_ >> Webcam_in_ROS_with_the_gscam_Package ) - why the heck we do need at least >> 5 drivers for a simple thing like capturing webcam pictures?! I know that >> there are different requirements, but forking isn't always the best >> solution... >> >> Additionally, many plugins aren't that usable. Are little example are >> localization using 1 or 2 video cameras. viso2_ros doesn't need sse2, >> which >> is a no-go for ARM-cpus which are getting more and more popular. >> PTAM is at least compiling, but it even fail to correctly display the >> video image (both on arm and on a normal x64 laptop). Sometimes it >> remembers me about https://xkcd.com/927/ ... >> >> Another problem is in my oppinion the library-hell problem. ROS packages >> are tightly tied with specific library version (e.g. libboost) which >> (roughly) exists only on one specific distro-version. This makes it >> almost >> inpossible to use binary versions of ros on another distros. Perhaps this >> can be solved that the binary packages depend on e.g. "libboost-1.42 | >> roslibboost-groovy" - so either the distro-version or a ros-own version >> can >> be used. >> >> Best regards, >> Michael Fritscher >> >> -- >> ZfT - Zentrum für Telematik e.V. >> Michael Fritscher >> Allesgrundweg 12 >> 97218 Gerbrunn >> Tel: +49 (931) 3 29 29 54 - 21 >> Email: michael.fritscher@telematik-zentrum.de >> Web: http://www.telematik-zentrum.de >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@lists.ros.org >> http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> >> > > > -- > *Arkapravo Bhaumik* > > > http://mobotica.blogspot.in/p/head.html > _______________________________________________ ros-users mailing list ros-users@lists.ros.org http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users