So. are you still planning to do this? It seems that new releases have not been released to Hydro debs for a while, which is causing some confusion (for instance, https://github.com/ros-planning/moveit_commander/pull/19#issuecomment-44034654 ) -Fergs On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Patrick Goebel wrote: > +1 here too. IMHO, this approach has awesomeness written all over it. > > --patrick > > > > On 2/27/2014 3:33 PM, Sachin Chitta wrote: > > Dear MoveIt! and ROS users, > > I wanted to give you information about how MoveIt! will be dealing with > the new ROS distro Indigo. > > Based on feedback from the MoveIt! survey conducted last year and prior > experience from the PR2, we know that most robots seem to lag the most > recent ROS release by a significant time period (a year or more sometimes). > We would like to encourage MoveIt! adoption on more and more robots and > also give people time to catch up but still be able to use the newest > features in MoveIt! with their robot. We have used this information to > formulate our strategy around ROS Indigo (at least in the near-term). > > We will *not* branch and develop separately for Indigo. The version of > MoveIt! in Indigo will be a near copy of that in Hydro. New features, > bug-fixes, etc. will continue to go into Hydro - there are almost always > ways to do this without having to break API and we will try to maintain API > stability. Everything new that is being released into Hydro will also be > ported into Indigo releases. This will allow both users working with the > latest distributions and users working with older distributions to keep > using MoveIt!. > > Let me know if there are any questions/comments about this. > > Best Regards, > Sachin > > > Sachin Chitta > Associate Director > Robotics Systems and Software > SRI International > > > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@lists.ros.org > http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > >