[ros-users] Moving from Player to ROS

[Dejan Pangercic]

> You said "arguments _for_ using Player _over_ ROS" :) I think you meant the
> opposite.
Mea culpa, I meant the opposite of course.
D.

>
> In any case, Player is still actively maintained and there's still people
> using it and submitting patches (Rich Mattes is leading most of the
> efforts). Approximatively 6 months ago, the redevelopment of Javaclient for
> Player restarted too (Jorge Simon is leading the efforts).
>
> Player is still useful -- it's tiny and simple to run and understand.
> However, for anything a tad bit more complex, we found out that users tend
> to switch over to ROS. Dejan is right, the ROS community is larger, and "ROS
> does" and offers an extremely large palette of software useful for robotics,
> which Player was not meant to offer in the first place.
>
> Cheers,
> Radu.
> --
> http://pointclouds.org
>



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