A demo is always better than words, how about that: http://wiki.ros.org/Installation ? I am just including previous instructions, that's it. On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Ugo Cupcic wrote: > Sounds good! > > On 22 September 2015 at 10:46, Vincent Rabaud via ros-release < > ros-release@lists.ros.org> wrote: > >> I am sad that good instructions for installing on non-Ubuntu platforms >> get lost over time (look at http://wiki.ros.org/fuerte/Installation, >> http://wiki.ros.org/groovy/Installation) >> >> I propose to change the ROS installation page to be installation method / >> OS / Linux distribution centric and not ROS distribution-centric. >> >> Why ? For coherence with the rest of the wiki (package centric) and the >> advantages it brings: people can see that effort was made at some point for >> their favorite method, installation methods for old ROS distros might still >> be valid (e.g. Gentoo ), and instructions won't have to be duplicated for >> different ROS distributions as most of it is usually the same (e.g. OSX) >> >> What next ? I propose a central page >> http://wiki.ros.org/Installation >> with all the previous Linux distros / OS icons we've detailed (e.g. >> http://wiki.ros.org/groovy/Installation had a bunch) >> Those icons would point to, e.g. : >> http://wiki.ros.org/Gentoo >> http://wiki.ros.org/Windows >> http://wiki.ros.org/SourceInstallation >> Each page would itself have the usual ROS-distro macro ( >> http://wiki.ros.org/WikiMacros#Version) that we love so much. >> >> I guess copying the content of the current/old pages will be the way to >> go (compared to linking). We will obviously keep the old links / pages >> valid. >> >> Opinions ? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-release mailing list >> ros-release@lists.ros.org >> http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-release >> >> > > > -- > Ugo Cupcic*Head of Software*+44 20 7700 2487ugo@shadowrobot.com > www.shadowrobot.com > > ------------------------------ > *Shadow Robot Company Ltd.* > 251 Liverpool Road, N1 1LX, UK > Registered Number 3308007 (England & Wales) > > RoNeX - Building Robots with ROS Made Easy > http://www.shadowrobot.com/products/ronex/ > ------------------------------ > >