[ros-users] wg-ros-pkg/trunk and ros-pkg/trunk moved to trunk_cturtle

[Ken Conley]

Hi Mike,

wg-ros-pkg/all was deprecated in boxturtle [1] and we've stopped
supporting it for future distros [2]. The URL no longer has any
meaning now that there are ROS distributions. It used to be a
convenience URL that we used inside WG, but there is no longer the
'one' development head that we are working on.

wg-ros-pkg/all has been superceded by the auto-generated 'distro' URLs:
https://code.ros.org/svn/wg-ros-pkg/externals/distro/DISTRO_NAME/VARIANT

However, as these are generated from the distribution themselves, they
do not include 'trunk' or 'trunk_cturtle', which are unreleased code.
We're trying to reduce the general audience that checks out our
trunks, mainly because we think it confuses new users who see
experimental code at the same level as the stable code. Of course, you
need easy access to openrave_planning, so your needs are different.

One question is does openrave_planning belong in trunk_cturtle or
trunk. trunk_cturtle is for packages being developed against C Turtle
APIs. trunk is for packages being developed against "Unstable" (the
new name for 'latest').

HTH,
Ken

[1]: http://ros-users.122217.n3.nabble.com/ROS-Distribution-Box-Turtle-Release-td425278.html#a425278
[2]: http://ros-users.122217.n3.nabble.com/old-wg-ros-pkg-all-external-removed-please-migrate-td979663.html#a979663

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Mike Vande Weghe <vandeweg at cmu.edu> wrote:
> Ken, is it still recommended to get the full set of stacks by checking
> out https://code.ros.org/svn/wg-ros-pkg/all ?  Among the values for
> svn:externals in that directory are these:
>
>   ros-pkg-trunk   https://code.ros.org/svn/ros-pkg/trunk/
>   wg-ros-pkg-trunk https://code.ros.org/svn/wg-ros-pkg/trunk/
>
> Can/should those also be switched over to
>     https://code.ros.org/svn/ros-pkg/branches/trunk_cturtle/
> and https://code.ros.org/wg-ros-pkg/branches/trunk_cturtle/ ?
>
> Thanks,
>
>   Mike
>
> Ken Conley wrote:
>> We've moved the contents of wg-ros-pkg/trunk and ros-pkg/trunk to
>> separate 'trunk_cturtle' branches. Now that C Turtle is out, we are
>> maintaining code against multiple distributions (Box Turtle, C Turtle,
>> and Unstable). It has become necessary for us to start maintaining
>> better version and API consistency for our code. We also feel that
>> this is a good time to make this transition as most of our code has
>> been transitioned to stacks that you can install separately. The code
>> that remains in our trunks is generally very unstable and should be
>> avoided by most users.
>>
>> If you are using packages from this location, you'll find them moved here:
>>
>> https://code.ros.org/svn/ros-pkg/branches/trunk_cturtle/
>> https://code.ros.org/svn/wg-ros-pkg/branches/trunk_cturtle/
>>
>> As the URL suggests, these packages will be developed against C Turtle
>> libraries and remain consistent with those APIs. Packages that are
>> developed for Diamondback Turtle will be located in wg-ros-pkg/trunk
>> and ros-pkg/trunk.
>>
>>  -- your friendly neighborhood Repo man
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