I've ticketed this so we don't lose track of it
https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/3307
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Daniel Stonier <
d.stonier@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 21 January 2011 10:40, Tully Foote <tfoote@willowgarage.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 4:28 PM, garratt <garrattgallagher@gmail.com>wrote:
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>>> Hi Tully,
>>>
>>> First off, Is there any chance that there could be some sort of
>>> additional mailing list/RSS feed for announcements like this that change
>>> functionality for most users? I subscribe to all the mailing lists, and
>>> really important messages like this one tend to get lost in the noise.
>>> Actually, even a [Announcement] tag after the normal [ros-users] might
>>> do...
>>>
>>>
>> if we put this sort of thing into the ROS.org News Feed would that be a
>> good solution? http://www.ros.org/news/
>>
>
> Actually, could probably use its own feed. The ros.org news feed is
> closely followed by most of the people here at our company who are keen ros
> observers, but not ros developers. They love to see ros robots and who is
> using ros. Posting there would just mean important announcements to
> developers on actual ros functionality changes would get lost in a different
> kind of noise. Those of us who actually develop with ros here don't actually
> follow that feed much as we already know what's going on. It would also
> generate unnecessary noise for the ros observers.
>
> secondly, I'd like to point out that the output of rosinstall still
>>> says:
>>> "
>>> done. Now, type 'source /somepath/setup.sh' to set up your environment.
>>> Add that to the bottom of your ~/.bashrc to set it up every time.
>>> "
>>> If we are moving to support other shells, shouldn't this be changed? It
>>> would have certainly caught my eye if it was:
>>>
>>> Add 'source /somepath/setup.bash' to your ~/.bashrc if you are using
>>> bash shell
>>> add 'source /somepath/setup.zsh' to your ~/.tzrc if you are using zsh
>>> shell (or whatever the config file is named...)
>>>
>>> Or, given that you can find which shell is being used, just print the
>>> relevant setup suffix...
>>>
>>> Thanks, i missed that. Ticketed
>> https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/3264
>>
>> Tully
>>
>>
>>> thanks,
>>> Garratt
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 15:35 -0800, Tully Foote wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > As of rosinstall version 0.5.12 it will no longer use bashisms in the
>>> > setup.sh file. They have been moved to setup.bash. And for zsh users
>>> > there is also a setup.zsh generated.
>>> >
>>> > For existing bash users this will mean that until you switch to use
>>> > setup.bash instead of setup.sh you will not have the command line tools
>>> > you are used to such as rosrun roscd and tab completion.
>>> >
>>> > This was ticketed at https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/2860
>>> >
>>> > I have tried to update references on the wiki. If you run into one I
>>> > missed please update it to reference setup.bash, unless the reference
>>> is
>>> > for a specific different shell.
>>> >
>>> > A similar change will be made in the /opt/ros/ROSDISTRO/setup.sh will
>>> be
>>> > seperated to setup.sh for environment and setup.bash for bash specific
>>> > calls. TIcketed at https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/3243
>>> >
>>> > Tully
>>> >
>>> >
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>>>
>>>
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