[ros-users] [PCL-users] PCL 0.7 Released!

[Nizar Khalifa Sallem]

Hi,

I was so excited that I gave it a try, unluckily it doesn't compile due to the presence of ROS_ERROR macro which seems to be undefined in the standalone. I will put a ticket.


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Nizar SALLEM
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On Dec 21, 2010, at 9:51 AM, Radu Bogdan Rusu wrote:

> 
> On 12/21/2010 12:37 AM, Marius Muja wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> We are happy to announce the release of PCL 0.7
> 
> And just to continue with our goofy add-hoc release naming scheme (post 0.5), let's call this one: Special "FLANN is 
> awesome" edition, as we attribute most of the algorithmic speedups to Marius! :)
> 
> 
> One more note: we also released perception_pcl_addons 0.2 (http://www.ros.org/wiki/perception_pcl_addons/ChangeList) 
> which brings a lot of internal optimizations for speed + some new functionality to all the PCL Visualizer users.
> 
> 
> The next target is 0.8, and we'll start changing things a bit... one one hand we'll try to do a website organization 
> with a proper wish list, bugs to fix, etc, so that more people can contribute, and on the other, we'll start dropping 
> support for deprecated/unused classes/methods and prepare for the API review.
> 
> One of the first things that we need to deprecate is the pcl_ros::Publisher/Subscriber. Thanks to Patrick's amazing 
> work, we now have the possibility to reuse the ros::Publisher/Subscriber for pcl::PointCloud<T> datasets. This means:
>  * within the same process, we will just copy the pcl::PointCloud<T>::ConstPtr
>  * between different processes, we will send the pcl::PointCloud<T>::ConstPtr, but with the same MD5 sum as 
> sensor_msgs::PointCloud2 + extra logic, which means all sensor_msgs/PointCloud2 consumers will be able to consume 
> pcl::PointCloud<T> directly
> 
> 
> Also many many thanks to Troy for pushing the new library structure (99% done, still some work to do for 0.8), which 
> improves things dramatically for user code compiled against PCL. Between 0.5 and 0.7 we managed to drop the memory usage 
> during compilation from 1.3GB to ~650MB / process, which is FANTASTIC! The remaining work includes refactoring some of 
> the internal ROS dependencies such as message_filters, or dynamic_reconfigure, which might take some time.
> 
> 
> And as Marius said, many many thanks to all the contributors and users! I'm sure we forgot some names, but they know who 
> they are!
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Radu.
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