On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Jack O'Quin wrote: > > On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Tully Foote > wrote: > >> Hi Jack, >> >> It is needed for supporting some of the Kinect variants, not all of them >> work with OpenNI. It's also been a little easier to support exotic >> computing platforms with this driver. I'd prefer to keep the Kinect support >> for the TurtleBot for now. >> >> There is a rosdep for libfreenect-dev >> https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/blob/master/rosdep/base.yaml#L1483 >> which I hope could replace the libfreenect ros package. >> http://wiki.ros.org/libfreenect but is not necessary. >> >> I hope rereleasing will be just a few minutes since there's been no >> changes for a long time and we can just move on. >> > > No problem. Just trying to avoid a little maintenance work, if possible. > :-) > > >> We chose for the TurtleBot maintenance load to only do the LTS releases >> which is why we didn't push to have this released into Jade. >> > > Good idea. I suppose we should release to Jade as well as Kinetic. > If it works w/o any changes it would be great. If it's extra work, maybe wait for requests to avoid the extra maintenance. Jade's approaching EOL quickly. Tully > -- > joq >