On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Austin Hendrix <legotown@aol.com> wrote:

> I think the most important thing to consider with respect to the parameter
> server is the API; in particular, the python API is very good, and you can
> easily retrieve and work with any subtree of the parameter server
> namespace, and easily store lists within a parameter. Doing similar
> operations from C++, by comparison, is very cumbersome, requiring manual
> manipulation of the XMLRPC data structures and manual casting or conversion
> operations.


As an aside, lists from rosparam in c++ don't have to be cumbersome even
with the current API:
https://github.com/jhu-lcsr/terse_roscpp/blob/master/include/terse_roscpp/param.h

-j

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