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On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:55 AM, Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was looking through the list of suggested topics on the gsoc page[1]
> and ran into this one:
>
> "Develop ROS independent library for system dependency resolution"
>
> I was wondering if I could maybe have some more information on this. For
> instance, is the end goal something like "packagekit"[2], that can sit
> on top of the various package managers and make system libraries easier
> to install? Packagekit doesn't have it's own dep solver, it just calls
> the various package managers in it's back-end and lets them do their
> thing. Quoting the website: "Formally, PackageKit is a D-Bus abstraction
> layer that allows the session user to manage packages in a secure way
> using a cross-distro, cross-architecture API." From the description of
> the gsoc project, a lot of work seems to already have been done in
> packagekit. (There's a command line packagekit client too, it isn't just
> a GUI)
>
> I'm a fedora package maintainer, part of the fedora robotics sig and
> have been assisting Rich Mattes with packaging Fuerte for Fedora. I'm
> currently reviewing the packages he puts up. I'm therefore aware of some
> of the challenges that need to be overcome to get ROS easily deployed on
> $random_distro. I'm a masters by research student at the University of
> Technology, Sydney. I'm using ROS for my research which uses the PR2 as
> a platform (hence my interest in ROS). My research is to do with
> navigation, where I focus on biological inspired navigation (head
> cells/place cells/continuous attractor neural networks and the sort)
>
> [1] http://wiki.osrfoundation.org/gsoc13
> [2] http://www.packagekit.org/pk-intro.html
> --
> Thanks,
> Warm regards,
> Ankur: "FranciscoD"
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