[ros-users] Extending roslaunch

[Tully Foote]

Thanks Dan.

FYI I moved the page to http://www.ros.org/wiki/hydro/Planning/roslaunch as
we usually use the shorter codename on the planning page.

Tully

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Dan Lazewatsky
<lazewatskyd at cse.wustl.edu>wrote:

> I created a wiki page for the SIG and added the ideas from this thread:
> http://www.ros.org/wiki/hydromedusa/Planning/roslaunch
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Jonathan Bohren <
> jonathan.bohren at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Lorenzo Riano <
>> lorenzo.riano at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> I would have a long list of suggestions. Is anybody setting up a SIG?
>>>
>>> Lorenzo
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 4:14 AM, Weißhardt, Florian <
>>> Florian.Weisshardt at ipa.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> +1
>>>>
>>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>>> Von: ros-users-bounces at code.ros.org [mailto:
>>>> ros-users-bounces at code.ros.org] Im Auftrag von Brice Rebsamen
>>>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 14. August 2012 04:20
>>>> An: User discussions
>>>> Betreff: Re: [ros-users] Extending roslaunch
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>
>> Well the primary Groovy SIG feature freeze is tomorrow, but you can
>> definitely start planning one for Hydromedusa.
>>
>> -j
>>
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