[ros-users] [Ros-release] REP for Third Party Package Releas…

Hi William,

Op woensdag 20 februari 2013 schreef William Woodall (
wwoodall@willowgarage.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
'wwoodall@willowgarage.com');>) het volgende:

> I have drafted a REP, tentatively REP-136, which is an Informational REP
> providing a recommendation for how to release third party packages into the
> ROS ecosystem. In this context a third party package is any software
> package which is used in the ROS ecosystem, but exists outside of the ROS
> ecosystem, and therefore is neither catkin based nor rosbuild based.
>
> You can find this draft REP here:
>
>
> https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/rep/blob/release_third_party/rep-0136.rst
>
> And the pull request containing the drafting history is here:
>
> https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/rep/pull/23
>
> To summarize the recommendation, third party packages should:
>

>    - Have a package.xml
>       - Which run_depend's on catkin
>       - Has a <build_type> tag in the <export> section
>    - Install the package.xml

>
> Notice this recommendation does not involve buildtool_depend'ing on
> catkin, and it does not require the use of catkin in the build system. This
> can either be accomplished by putting the package.xml and its install rule
> into the upstream repository of the third party library or by injecting the
> package.xml and install rule into the release repository using bloom.
>
>
Is the functionality described in the REP already available in catkin and
bloom? In other words, can we try out the described functionality?

Ruben



> The REP covers many more details related to the rationale of this
> recommendation, consequences of this style of releasing third party
> packages, and links to resources related to this change.
>
> Please submit any feedback to the ros-sig-buildsystem mailing list.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> William Woodall
> Willow Garage - Software Engineer
> wwoodall@willowgarage.com
>


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