On 04/03/15 14:02, Dirk Thomas wrote:

Please propose a change to the package header in the wiki.
While the information might be platform specific it could be helpful.

The patch will need to be applied to the following function:
https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/roswiki/blob/c92f7e3a490e4b5a72cc7b290287a4e2d23d8425/macro/headers.py#L265

Are you sure that is the correct function? I would've expected to add an entry to the unordered list that gets generated in get_description(..)?

Please note that the package manifest available in the "data" variable is
not the package.xml file but the content of the manifest.yaml files
generated by the doc jobs.
See http://docs.ros.org/indigo/api/roscpp_tutorials/manifest.yaml for an
example manifest.yaml.

Thanks,
- Dirk

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Jonathan Bohren <jonathan.bohren@gmail.com>
wrote:

I think this is a great idea. I can't say the likelihood that this gets
added to the wiki, but I'd be happy to accept a PR to add this to
http://rosindex.github.io

https://github.com/rosindex/rosindex/issues/142

-j

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 03:44 G.A. vd. Hoorn - 3ME <
g.a.vanderhoorn@tudelft.nl> wrote:

All,


just wondering whether we should somehow clarify what the current 'best
practices' are for installing packages onto a ROS pc. I see a lot of
people that assume that building from source (after cloning from a
repository) is _the_ way to do things.

Apart from the fact that this is essentially a waste of time and effort,
it also often leads to problems (as they forget to check for and / or
install all dependencies first), which then results in numerous ROS
Answers questions. Having the sources locally also seems to invite some
users to start editing / hard coding parameters (such as IPs / serial
ports) into nodes, which is obviously unwanted.

Somehow I have a feeling that the prominent placing of the repository
URL in the Package Summary contributes to the confusion.

Would it perhaps be an idea to add a one-liner to the 'Package Summary'
on wiki pages of released packages that shows users how to install it
("Installation: sudo apt-get install ros-$release-pkg-name", although
that is distribution specific)? Or a link to a (new) wiki page that
explains how to install packages in general (with the from-source option
shown last)?


Gijs

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