Re: [ros-users] Indigo buildfarm ready for releases

>     Hi,

>     * Tully Foote <tfoote@osrfoundation.org
>     <mailto:tfoote@osrfoundation.org>> [2014-03-24 20:58]:
>     > We're pleased to announce the ROS build farm for Indigo Igloo is now
>     > available.  It includes over 180 packages already for Ubuntu
>     13.10, Saucy
>     > Salamander, and Ubuntu 14.04, Trusty Tahr. We expect that number to
>     > continue to grow rapidly. Installation instructions already
>     exist for
>     > Ubuntu using debians or for compiling from source [1], and you
>     can see the
>     > status of Indigo packages on this page:

>     Do you plan to support Indigo on older Ubuntu versions (like 13.04 or
>     12.04) as well? Point is, that the normal migration tactic is to have
>     both ROS versions installed and switch them to the new version one
>     ofter
>     the other. At the moment this wouldn't be possible, as Hydro is only
>     available until 13.04 (cf. [1]), whereas Indigo starts with 13.10.
>     Initially the plan was to support Hydro on 13.10 (see [2]), but
>     maybe it
>     would be easier to support Indigo on an older version.

>     Having multiple versions installed was always a selling point for ROS
>     (given that it's so monolithic), so I think we should really work on
>     providing upgrade paths to our users.

>     Cheers Jochen

>     [1] http://lists.ros.org/pipermail/ros-users/2014-January/068162.html
>     [2] http://lists.ros.org/pipermail/ros-users/2013-May/053252.html

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