On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Christian Schlegel <schlegel@hs-ulm.de> wrote:
really interesting to me that ease of use, user experience, make
it simple for robotics people is seen (partly) in conflict with
using more advanced middleware systems.
Yeah, I don't think they're in conflict, but it takes more than the sum of the parts of work to make it so that it is both simple to use by default and allows advanced control of QoS depending on network characteristics and usage.
Just like I mentioned before, the defaults should be simple, but ROS should allow for using more advanced transports. Right now there is a little support for this as is shown with the normal image_transport and 3rd-party transport plugins like http://wiki.ros.org/ethzasl_message_transport.