Rosen, We have talked about adding easy_install as another way to install packages. It would fall into the rosdep definnitions. There is a ticket here to add support https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/2608. Doing this was too much for the last overhaul of rosdep. Our hope is to get a more robust rosdep syntax for the next generation. Right now we are limited to a single package manager per OS. But you can define arbitray bash scripts as rosdep targets. For example log4cxx on hardy in ros/rosdep.yaml in boxturtle. How to do this is demonstrated in the Tutorials in the rosdep documentation http://www.ros.org/wiki/rosdep Tully On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Rosen Diankov wrote: > easy_install has been mentioned several times in this list, and there > are several references to it in ros.org, suggesting that it is > somewhat supported by willow garage. We would like to specify a system > dependency of our ros packages pointing to an easy_install package, is > there a way to do this with the current build system? > thank you, > rosen, > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > -- Tully Foote Systems Engineer Willow Garage, Inc. tfoote@willowgarage.com (650) 475-2827