[Ros-release] Hydro build breakage: velodyne_pointcloud

[William Woodall]

I also patched image_pipline:

https://github.com/ros-perception/image_pipeline/pull/36


On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:31 PM, William Woodall
<william at osrfoundation.org>wrote:

> We have made an allowance for PCL being late because we have had to wait
> for upstream to get a release candidate together, and then I had to do all
> of the integration with pcl_ros and the core dependencies like navigation.
> It wasn't clear until very recently that this was going to cause a breaking
> API change (we had hoped for a seamless auto conversion of types), but that
> was not possible for technical reasons.
>
> No more changes should be occurring, unless PCL needs to break API for bug
> fix (as they are still in release candidate mode), pcl_conversions will
> probably get filled out some more, but no breaking API changes there.
>
> I am working hard to catch up packages downstream of pcl_ros by way of
> pull requests and documentation.
>
> I have already patched navigation:
>
> https://github.com/ros-planning/navigation/pull/86
>
> And Dave Coleman is working on gazebo integration, you should coordinate
> any efforts with him.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Piyush <piyushk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi William,
>>
>> Are more changes expected, or is it only a question of documentation at
>> this stage? I'm using Hydro beta right now, and I'll try and send pull
>> requests to upstream dependencies (navigation, gazebo) that need to be
>> fixed.
>>
>> Thanks!!
>> Piyush
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Jack O'Quin <jack.oquin at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:51 PM, William Woodall <
>>> william at osrfoundation.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a section in the migration page for hydro now:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.ros.org/wiki/hydro/Migration#pcl
>>>>
>>>> I will be expanding on it and documenting pcl_conversions in
>>>> the coming days.
>>>>
>>>> I also plan to send an email about it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Why are we introducing a breaking API change in PCL *after* the Hydro
>>> feature freeze?
>>>
>>> Is the release date changing?
>>> --
>>>  joq
>>>
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>
>
> --
> William Woodall
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>



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William Woodall
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