[ros-users] ROS Distribution: Box Turtle Release

Lorenz =?utf-8?Q?M=F6senlechner?= moesenle at in.tum.de
Tue Mar 9 22:13:29 UTC 2010


Hi,

great work!

Is there already a tutorial on how to build these debian packages? We
are still using debian lenny and I'm curious if it would be hard for
us to build the packages for our platform.

And as a second remark, I couldn't find documentation on how to update
the new installation when it's not based on debian packages but the
svn repositories. Since it is discouraged to use the 'all' repository
now and the rosinstall script just checks out lot's of small
repositories, going into every dir and doing an svn up seems to be
quite cumbersome. I found an update option in rosinstall, but I
couldn't find any documentation for it. But is it the recommended way
to do the update?

Thanks,
Lorenz


> Our first ROS Distribution release is here: Box Turtle. You can read
> our announcement at:
> 
> http://www.ros.org/news/2010/03/ros-distributions-box-turtle-release.html
> 
> Kudos to Morgan Quigley for bringing apt-get to ROS!
> 
> For developers, we want to highlight a few more things that come with
> this release. The first is that we are providing support (i.e. bug
> fixes) for the 1.0 stacks in this release, which cover most of our
> core capabilities, like navigation.
> 
> Second, our bleeding edge development will be in the "Latest" release,
> out of which we will hatch "C Turtle".
> 
> We strongly encourage transitioning off of:
> 
>  https://code.ros.org/svn/wg-ros-pkg/all/
> 
> as it links against these bleeding-edge versions. Our ROS installation
> instructions [1] provide 'rosinstall' files with several
> configurations for SVN checkout. You can also fetch all of our
> released stacks (including PR2 stacks) from:
> 
>   https://code.ros.org/svn/wg-ros-pkg/externals/boxturtle/
> 
> Third, we want to say thank you, especially to the early adopters, for
> sticking with us as ROS went through its growing pains to reach this
> first distribution. We've done our best to take your feedback about
> stability, documentation, and tutorials, and tried to roll it into our
> first ROS distribution. There were many deprecations and changes along
> the way, but we've now arrived at a new release process that
> identifies stable libraries and provides an easier migration process
> forward. We hope this will provide what you've been looking for. If
> not, we're always listening for feedback.
> 
> Finally, to repeat an administrative note, wg-ros-pkg/trunk/sandbox
> has been emptied and deprecated packages deleted. We've created a
> boxturtle branch of wg-ros-pkg/trunk [2] that you can checkout on top
> of  Box Turtle.
> 
> There are a lot of cool things in the works for C Turtle. In the
> meantime, enjoy Box Turtle and let us know what you think!
> 
>  -- your friendly neighborhood ROS turtle hatchery
> 
> [1]: http://ros.org/wiki/ROS/Installation
> [2]: https://code.ros.org/svn/wg-ros-pkg/branches/trunk_boxturtle/
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Lorenz Mösenlechner            | moesenle at in.tum.de
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