[ros-users] ROS Distribution: Box Turtle Release

[Ken Conley]

Hi Lorenz,

As Tully notes, the debian-building infrastructure is still in its
baby stages. The source code for it is in various packages within
"ros_installers":

https://code.ros.org/svn/ros/installers/trunk

There's a lot of extra, unused stuff in there, and there aren't
instructions on setting up your own infrastructure yet.

 - Ken

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Tully Foote <tfoote at willowgarage.com> wrote:
> Hi Lorenz,
> If you used rosinstall to install to ~/foo.  It is recommended to use
> ~/rosinstall -u ~/foo.  This will go through and update all your source
> checkouts in the rosinstall file.  As well as svn it also supports bzr and
> git checkouts.
>
> As for the debian building infrastructure.  Right now it's not structured in
> a way that a releasing it would be useful.  In the future we do plan to
> streamline it and make it available.
>
> Tully
>
> 2010/3/9 Lorenz Mösenlechner <moesenle at in.tum.de>
>>
>> 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
>> Technische Universität München | Boltzmannstr. 3
>> 85748 Garching bei München     | Germany
>> http://ias.cs.tum.edu/         | Tel: +49 (89) 289-17750
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