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