I've ticketed this so we don't lose track of it https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/3307 On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Daniel Stonier wrote: > > > On 21 January 2011 10:40, Tully Foote wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 4:28 PM, garratt 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/ >> > > Actually, could probably use its own feed. The ros.org news feed is > closely followed by most of the people here at our company who are keen ros > observers, but not ros developers. They love to see ros robots and who is > using ros. Posting there would just mean important announcements to > developers on actual ros functionality changes would get lost in a different > kind of noise. Those of us who actually develop with ros here don't actually > follow that feed much as we already know what's going on. It would also > generate unnecessary noise for the ros observers. > > 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 >>> > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > ros-users mailing list >>> > ros-users@code.ros.org >>> > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@code.ros.org >> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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