[ros-users] REP 114: rospkg standalone library

[Ken Conley]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Brian Gerkey <gerkey at willowgarage.com> wrote:
> +1.
>
> What should we do with rospack?  Seems like the same reasoning that
> leads to splitting out rospkg would suggest separate packaging of
> rospack (and rosstack).

Yes, that is the plan.   They will be optional dependencies of rospkg,
and eventually all would be combined into a 'ros' bootstrap debian
that was distribution-independent.   It's also possible that some of
the other binaries in ros/bin could go in this -- in particular, the
python scripts that follow the 'import foo; foo.main()' sort of
pattern.

My only concern with rospack is librospack, which could use some
improvements before it goes bigger.

 - Ken

>        brian.
>
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Ken Conley <kwc at willowgarage.com> wrote:
>> I have posted a draft REP 114: rospkg standalone library. It is
>> intended as a rewrite of the roslib Python library, this time with a
>> publicly supported API.  It is also standalone, i.e. it can be
>> installed separately from ROS.  The intent for this library is to
>> support develop of ROS tools that are decoupled from a particular ROS
>> distribution release as well as become the basis for future ROS tool
>> bootstrapping.
>>
>> http://www.ros.org/reps/rep-0114.html
>>
>> At its heart it can be thought of as a Python rospack/rosstack, though
>> it goes a little beyond that.   The first targeted use of the rospkg
>> library is a rewrite of the rosdep library to also be standalone.
>>
>> The REP notes current open questions/issues for discussion.
>>
>> I have also written documentation here:
>>
>> http://www.ros.org/doc/api/rospkg/html/sphinx/html/
>>
>> It includes the start of a developer's guide for those that wish to
>> also develop/maintain this library.  As this library may become the
>> bootstrap library for ROS in the future, I encourage those that are
>> interested to get involved.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Ken
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