On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 4:28 PM, garratt <garrattgallagher@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Tully,
>
> First off, Is there any chance that there could be some sort of
> additional mailing list/RSS feed for announcements like this that change
> functionality for most users?  I subscribe to all the mailing lists, and
> really important messages like this one tend to get lost in the noise.
> Actually, even a [Announcement] tag after the normal [ros-users] might
> do...
>
>
if we put this sort of thing into the ROS.org News Feed would that be a good
solution?  http://www.ros.org/news/



> secondly, I'd like to point out that the output of rosinstall still
> says:
> "
> done. Now, type 'source /somepath/setup.sh' to set up your environment.
> Add that to the bottom of your ~/.bashrc to set it up every time.
> "
> If we are moving to support other shells, shouldn't this be changed? It
> would have certainly caught my eye if it was:
>
> Add 'source /somepath/setup.bash' to your ~/.bashrc if you are using
> bash shell
> add 'source /somepath/setup.zsh' to your ~/.tzrc if you are using zsh
> shell (or whatever the config file is named...)
>
> Or, given that you can find which shell is being used, just print the
> relevant setup suffix...
>
> Thanks, i missed that. Ticketed https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/3264

Tully


> thanks,
> Garratt
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 15:35 -0800, Tully Foote wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > As of rosinstall version 0.5.12 it will no longer use bashisms in the
> > setup.sh file.  They have been moved to setup.bash.  And for zsh users
> > there is also a setup.zsh generated.
> >
> > For existing bash users this will mean that until you switch to use
> > setup.bash instead of setup.sh you will not have the command line tools
> > you are used to such as rosrun roscd and tab completion.
> >
> > This was ticketed at https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/2860
> >
> > I have tried to update references on the wiki.  If you run into one I
> > missed please update it to reference setup.bash, unless the reference is
> > for a specific different shell.
> >
> > A similar change will be made in the /opt/ros/ROSDISTRO/setup.sh will be
> > seperated to setup.sh for environment and setup.bash for bash specific
> > calls.  TIcketed at https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/3243
> >
> > Tully
> >
> >
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