+1, this is awesome.

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On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Ken Conley <kwc@willowgarage.com> wrote:

> The latest version of this doc is now viewable at:
>
> http://ros.org/reps/rep-0110.html
>
>  -- your friendly neighborhood REP editors
>
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Thibault Kruse <kruset@in.tum.de> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > the new rosinstall 0.6 series also has an implementation of REP110
> > (http://www.ros.org/reps/rep-0110.html).
> > I attach to this announcement an updated version of REP110 (Ken, please
> > update).
> > I am not sure what next step will be required to close the REP as final,
> > if the next step in the formal process is a review, then I hereby declare
> > the REP to be ready for review.
> >
> > Summary:
> > REP110 suggests a new command-line tool called rosws that does what
> > rosinstall does, with a more SCM like syntax. This should on the one hand
> > benefit novice users who feel uncertain about rosinstall, but can also
> > benefit expert users who felt that rosinstall does too much with a single
> > command.
> >
> > rosws uses the same functions and back-end as rosinstall, it is just a
> > different ui to the same tool. Therefore there are no incompatibilities
> > between both tools. However it is an ongoing attempt to make rosinstall
> > more independent of ROS, and rosws will allow to create workspaces that
> do
> > not have a ROS root. The rosinstall command remains unchanged except for
> > the addition of an option to run SCM actions in parallel.
> >
> > Users will get the rosws script if they update rosinstall using pip
> >
> > $ sudo pip install -U rosinstall
> >
> > There is also tab completion for bash that went into a python package of
> > its own (this one does not install with easy_install):
> >
> > $ sudo pip install -U rosinstall_shellcompletion
> >
> > Documentation and a tutorial for rosws are here:
> >
> > http://www.ros.org/doc/api/rosinstall/html/
> >
> > So if you got curious go ahead and try it out.
> >
> > Also I made some design decisions on usability (with much help from Tully
> > and Ken), but I can well have misjudged, and I am happy to modify details
> > based on user feedback.
> >
> > regards,
> >  Thibault
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