[ros-users] REP 3: Target Platforms updates for Fuerte and Groovy

[William Woodall]

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On Sep 28, 2011, at 12:42 PM, Ken Conley <kwc at willowgarage.com> wrote:

> The "Thirdparty library normalization and Target Platforms" SIG [1]
> has met and come up with the proposed update for REP 3, Target
> Platforms.  REP 3 defines which Ubuntu distribution releases we will
> target, as well as sets the low-water mark for major system library
> compatibility (e.g. Python, Boost).   The high-level summary of our
> discussion is that Groovy, rather than Fuerte, will be the major
> transitional release, and that we are proposing to drop both Maverick
> and Natty support for Fuerte.  Lucid will still be supported as it is
> the latest LTS.
>
> The proposed target platform update for Fuerte is below.  There is
> also an Ubuntu distribution release spec for Groovy -- system library
> low watermarks are still TBD for that release.
>
> For Fuerte, we have chosen to drop support for both Maverick and
> Natty.  Maverick is EOL 1 month after the Fuerte release, so it
> doesn't make sense to spend integration resources on it.  Natty was a
> more difficult choice; we based on our decision on the observation
> that users tracking the non-LTS releases of Ubuntu have generally
> migrated migrated to the next non-LTS release.  Less target platforms
> means that we can do a better job with the ones that we are targeting
> as both people and servers will not be spread as thin.
>
> REP 3 Updates:
>
> Fuerte Turtle (Mar 2012)
>
> * Ubuntu Lucid
> * Ubuntu Oneiric
> * Ubuntu P
> * C++03
> * Boost 1.40
> * Lisp SBCL 1.0.x
> * Python 2.6
>
> Groovy Galapagos (Aug 2012)
>
> * Ubuntu Oneiric
> * Ubuntu P
> * System libraries TBD
>
> [1] http://www.ros.org/wiki/fuerte/Planning/Thirdparty
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