[ros-users] Extending roslaunch

[Brice Rebsamen]

I'd like to suggest adding the 'machine' attribute to the 'include'
and 'group' tags.
Brice


On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Dan Lazewatsky
<lazewatskyd at cse.wustl.edu> wrote:
> I think there are a lot of potential changes that could make roslaunch
> easier to user. Maybe we should setup a SIG to discuss these things, even if
> it is too late to do so for Groovy.
>
> -Dan
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Cedric Pradalier
> <cedric.pradalier at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> If we discuss roslaunch extension, one very important thing would be to
>> add dependencies, i.e. launch prog X once Y is running...
>> I know this raises all kind of complicated issues especially when
>> respawning but it would avoid developing the corresponding logic in each
>> node.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Bill Morris <bill at iheartengineering.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any opinions on extending the roslaunch and its XML
>>> format?
>>>
>>> I would like to propose modifications to the <launch> tag by adding a
>>> 'name' and 'description' attributes or elements. Icon information might
>>> also be nice as well, but isn't really as important. These will help
>>> make it easier to figure out what your launch files do in a way that is
>>> machine readable for other applications.
>>>
>>> For example, one idea is to be able to double click on a launch file
>>> have it start without a terminal, then it could call libnotify with the
>>> name and description of the launch file that was started.
>>>
>>> This would provide helpful feedback to the user as some launch files
>>> take a while to actually start.
>>>
>>> One issue I see is that libnotify/dbus seem designed to work on the
>>> local machine and multi master will probably fail. One fix for this
>>> might be to have roslaunch broadcast the Name and Description of each
>>> launch file it starts on a topic. Another node could then bridge this
>>> topic to libnotify.
>>>
>>> tl;dr
>>> launch file as a desktop icon, click it, too long to start.
>>> What is the easiest way to fix?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Bill Morris <bill at iheartengineering.com>
>>> I Heart Engineering
>>> http://www.iheartengineering.com
>>> <3
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Cedric Pradalier
>>
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