[ros-users] RViz on OS X

[William Woodall]

I can definitely empathize with you about the Macports and 32-bit/64-bit
issues.  In fact, most of the stuff in the wiki is about making ROS and
Macports play nice, which currently means universal variants and building
ROS completely 32-bit.  My friend John got RViz working with the built-in wx
and python that come from Apple, but I want to say there were some issues.

I would like to cut the Macports cord, but there are many, many dependencies
that must be fulfilled at the moment.  I would love to see something similar
to fink be successful again, it never made sense to me why binary
distribution wouldn't work great on OS X.  I think another way ROS could be
much more OS X compatible would be to move away from wx (Carbon dependency
drives many 32-bit issues). I know that moving to Qt was discussed at some
point, and I really think that would be a worth wild move, because I have
been very impressed with the Qt framework's portability and consistency,
though I recognize the amount of effort involved in such a move.

I am interested to see if the changes in rosbuild2 and rosdep will ease
these concerns as well.

--

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
William Woodall
Graduate Software Engineering
Auburn University
w at auburn.edu
wjwwood at gmail.com
williamjwoodall.com
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On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Ken Conley <kwc at willowgarage.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:53 PM, William Woodall <wjwwood at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I made one, but I think on the ros.org wiki might be better in the end,
> also
> > most of the patches are already in tickets and in the upstream svn for
> ros.
>
> This is great work and thanks for taking the time to also document +
> send nice, concise patches.  I'm looking forward to better support in
> Electric for OS X.
>
> Part of the challenge with OS X has been Macports, which has been a
> moving target (as has the 32-bit -> 64-bit nastiness).  Our OS X
> install was originally spec'd back in 10.4 days where the underlying
> platform was quite different.  I'd be interested in hearing ideas of
> how to revamp this (including cutting the Macports cord).  I made an
> initial investigation into moving the Python libraries off of Macports
> and use the builtin Python interpreter, but got hung up on some
> integration issues.  With some upcoming changes to rosdep those issues
> should be easier to solve.
>
> cheers,
> Ken
>
>
> > Thanks,
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > William Woodall
> > Graduate Software Engineering
> > Auburn University
> > w at auburn.edu
> > wjwwood at gmail.com
> > williamjwoodall.com
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Serge Stinckwich
> > <serge.stinckwich at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:00 AM, William Woodall <wjwwood at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > I don't mind, but I can also give you access to mine so that you can
> >> > edit it
> >> > if you like, at some point we should probably put this some where
> else.
> >>
> >> Yes i think so. Could you create a ROX repository and move the wiki page
> >> here ?
> >> We will put also all the patches here also.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Serge Stinckwich
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