On 2014-03-27 16:45, Jack O'Quin wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Jochen Sprickerhof > > wrote: > > Hi, > > * Tully Foote > [2014-03-24 20:58]: > > We're pleased to announce the ROS build farm for Indigo Igloo is now > > available. It includes over 180 packages already for Ubuntu > 13.10, Saucy > > Salamander, and Ubuntu 14.04, Trusty Tahr. We expect that number to > > continue to grow rapidly. Installation instructions already > exist for > > Ubuntu using debians or for compiling from source [1], and you > can see the > > status of Indigo packages on this page: > > Do you plan to support Indigo on older Ubuntu versions (like 13.04 or > 12.04) as well? Point is, that the normal migration tactic is to have > both ROS versions installed and switch them to the new version one > ofter > the other. At the moment this wouldn't be possible, as Hydro is only > available until 13.04 (cf. [1]), whereas Indigo starts with 13.10. > Initially the plan was to support Hydro on 13.10 (see [2]), but > maybe it > would be easier to support Indigo on an older version. > > Having multiple versions installed was always a selling point for ROS > (given that it's so monolithic), so I think we should really work on > providing upgrade paths to our users. > > Cheers Jochen > > [1] http://lists.ros.org/pipermail/ros-users/2014-January/068162.html > [2] http://lists.ros.org/pipermail/ros-users/2013-May/053252.html > > _______________________________________________ > > > > +1 I fully agree: this zero-overlap plan will drastically delay > adoption of Indigo. +1 for the same reasons! -- Armin Hornung Humanoid Robots Lab, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg Contact: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~hornunga