[ros-users] bash specific functionality removed from setup.sh into setup.bash

[Daniel Stonier]

On 21 January 2011 10:40, Tully Foote <tfoote at willowgarage.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 4:28 PM, garratt <garrattgallagher at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Hi Tully,
>>
>> First off, Is there any chance that there could be some sort of
>> additional mailing list/RSS feed for announcements like this that change
>> functionality for most users?  I subscribe to all the mailing lists, and
>> really important messages like this one tend to get lost in the noise.
>> Actually, even a [Announcement] tag after the normal [ros-users] might
>> do...
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> if we put this sort of thing into the ROS.org News Feed would that be a
> good solution?  http://www.ros.org/news/
>

Actually, could probably use its own feed. The ros.org news feed is closely
followed by most of the people here at our company who are keen ros
observers, but not ros developers. They love to see ros robots and who is
using ros. Posting there would just mean important announcements to
developers on actual ros functionality changes would get lost in a different
kind of noise. Those of us who actually develop with ros here don't actually
follow that feed much as we already know what's going on. It would also
generate unnecessary noise for the ros observers.

secondly, I'd like to point out that the output of rosinstall still
>> says:
>> "
>> done. Now, type 'source /somepath/setup.sh' to set up your environment.
>> Add that to the bottom of your ~/.bashrc to set it up every time.
>> "
>> If we are moving to support other shells, shouldn't this be changed? It
>> would have certainly caught my eye if it was:
>>
>> Add 'source /somepath/setup.bash' to your ~/.bashrc if you are using
>> bash shell
>> add 'source /somepath/setup.zsh' to your ~/.tzrc if you are using zsh
>> shell (or whatever the config file is named...)
>>
>> Or, given that you can find which shell is being used, just print the
>> relevant setup suffix...
>>
>> Thanks, i missed that. Ticketed https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/3264
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> Tully
>
>
>> thanks,
>> Garratt
>>
>>
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>> On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 15:35 -0800, Tully Foote wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > As of rosinstall version 0.5.12 it will no longer use bashisms in the
>> > setup.sh file.  They have been moved to setup.bash.  And for zsh users
>> > there is also a setup.zsh generated.
>> >
>> > For existing bash users this will mean that until you switch to use
>> > setup.bash instead of setup.sh you will not have the command line tools
>> > you are used to such as rosrun roscd and tab completion.
>> >
>> > This was ticketed at https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/2860
>> >
>> > I have tried to update references on the wiki.  If you run into one I
>> > missed please update it to reference setup.bash, unless the reference is
>> > for a specific different shell.
>> >
>> > A similar change will be made in the /opt/ros/ROSDISTRO/setup.sh will be
>> > seperated to setup.sh for environment and setup.bash for bash specific
>> > calls.  TIcketed at https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/3243
>> >
>> > Tully
>> >
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