Hi all,
Greg Brill and I have been working on establishing a script that can more or less automatically set up a ROS desktop_full install on Mavericks and Yosemite; we'd be glad for a few brave souls to give it a try:
- uses brewed python instead of system python,
- uses catkin_tools to build in parallel instead of catkin_make_isolated,
- requires very minimal and well-documented sudo use, and
- tries to automatically detect some problematic configurations and provide appropriate prompts/suggestions.
The desktop_full build itself is about 30 minutes; the remainder of the time is spent fetching and building dependencies (especially VTK and Gazebo 5). Total time on most systems should be < 1h.
Our intent is to set up some form of CI which can periodically re-run this setup on a vanilla machine, and thus keep it from regressing, however such a thing is still to come— this overall procedure is long enough that it's not a good fit for Travis CI.
Bugs and pull requests welcome,
Mike