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

[Radu Bogdan Rusu]

Nizar,

Thanks again. Can you check if the updated TGZ fixed these issues?

Cheers,
Radu.
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On 12/21/2010 03:09 AM, Nizar Khalifa Sallem wrote:
> I attach the patch that solves all the compilation issues since there were more. See Ticket URL:
> https://code.ros.org/trac/ros-pkg/ticket/4641
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> On Dec 21, 2010, at 10:57 AM, Nizar Khalifa Sallem wrote:
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>> 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
>> Robotics and Artificial Intelligence PhD student
>> LAAS-CNRS
>> 7, Avenue Colonel Roche
>> 31077 Toulouse CEDEX 4
>> FRANCE
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>> On Dec 21, 2010, at 9:51 AM, Radu Bogdan Rusu wrote:
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>>>
>>> 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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