The strength of the per-distro pages should be that it's a clean start, but in practice (at least for OS X), the same hacks and workarounds get copied from distro to distro, resulting in a page that's completely overwhelmed with information that mostly originated with Groovy and Hydro:

http://wiki.ros.org/jade/Installation/OSX/Homebrew/Source

Since there's little gained from the current approach, I'd be fine to move to OS-oriented seesaw install pages. The $ROS_DISTRO JS replacement I added some time ago may help in facilitating genericized instructions in some cases.

On 23 September 2015 at 17:08, William Woodall via ros-release <ros-release@lists.ros.org> wrote:
I meant that when Kinetic comes out, we'll need to go to every platform and put "{{{#!wiki version kinetic DOES NOT WORK}}}" or similar (which is because there is no "default" option with the seesaw). Otherwise you just get a blank page.

But maybe a macro is too much work. Like I said it's not worse than the current system.

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Vincent Rabaud <vincent.rabaud@gmail.com> wrote:
Well, I actually think yet another macro would be too much work no ? Good text can fix your points I believe, e.g.: http://wiki.ros.org/Installation/Angstrom
And for instructions that don't change much (like OSX I guess), well, it's the guy that usually writes the page that will fix it no ? One page with ROS-distro sections, or a bunch of includes (like what I did): his call no ?



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