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Author: Vincent Rabaud
Date:  
To: Ugo Cupcic
CC: The ROS release mailing list
Subject: Re: [ros-release] proposal for changing the installation page on the wiki
A demo is always better than words, how about that:
http://wiki.ros.org/Installation ?
I am just including previous instructions, that's it.

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Ugo Cupcic <> wrote:

> Sounds good!
>
> On 22 September 2015 at 10:46, Vincent Rabaud via ros-release <
> > wrote:
>
>> I am sad that good instructions for installing on non-Ubuntu platforms
>> get lost over time (look at http://wiki.ros.org/fuerte/Installation,
>> http://wiki.ros.org/groovy/Installation)
>>
>> I propose to change the ROS installation page to be installation method /
>> OS / Linux distribution centric and not ROS distribution-centric.
>>
>> Why ? For coherence with the rest of the wiki (package centric) and the
>> advantages it brings: people can see that effort was made at some point for
>> their favorite method, installation methods for old ROS distros might still
>> be valid (e.g. Gentoo ), and instructions won't have to be duplicated for
>> different ROS distributions as most of it is usually the same (e.g. OSX)
>>
>> What next ? I propose a central page
>> http://wiki.ros.org/Installation
>> with all the previous Linux distros / OS icons we've detailed (e.g.
>> http://wiki.ros.org/groovy/Installation had a bunch)
>> Those icons would point to, e.g. :
>> http://wiki.ros.org/Gentoo
>> http://wiki.ros.org/Windows
>> http://wiki.ros.org/SourceInstallation
>> Each page would itself have the usual ROS-distro macro (
>> http://wiki.ros.org/WikiMacros#Version) that we love so much.
>>
>> I guess copying the content of the current/old pages will be the way to
>> go (compared to linking). We will obviously keep the old links / pages
>> valid.
>>
>> Opinions ?
>>
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