Rosen, <br>  We have talked about adding easy_install as another way to install packages.  It would fall into the rosdep definnitions.  There is a ticket here to add support <a href="https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/2608">https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/2608</a>.  Doing this was too much for the last overhaul of rosdep.  Our hope is to get a more robust rosdep syntax for the next generation.  <br>

<br>Right now we are limited to a single package manager per OS.  But you can define arbitray bash scripts as rosdep targets.  For example log4cxx on hardy in ros/rosdep.yaml in boxturtle.  How to do this is demonstrated in the Tutorials in the rosdep documentation <a href="http://www.ros.org/wiki/rosdep">http://www.ros.org/wiki/rosdep</a><br>

<br>Tully<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Rosen Diankov <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:rosen.diankov@gmail.com">rosen.diankov@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">

easy_install has been mentioned several times in this list, and there<br>
are several references to it in <a href="http://ros.org" target="_blank">ros.org</a>, suggesting that it is<br>
somewhat supported by willow garage. We would like to specify a system<br>
dependency of our ros packages pointing to an easy_install package, is<br>
there a way to do this with the current build system?<br>
thank you,<br>
rosen,<br>
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