[ros-users] Groovy specs on REP 003

[Tully Foote]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Vincent Rabaud <vrabaud at willowgarage.com>wrote:

> I guess that's doable except:
> - PCL 1.6 requires boost 1.49 (and Precise actually only has 1.48 ....).
> We are checking with the developers now if 1.46 is usable or if we can
> easily disable modules that require a higher boost
> - we will support Groovy for a year so supporting Oneiric means we will
> support that OS for 6 more months after Ubuntu stops maintaining it, that
> seems dangerous
>
> Provided we can deal with the PCL issue, we could support Oneiric until
> its end of life, that seems reasonable no ?
>

I think that supporting Oneiric until EOL is reasonable.  And as Jack
states it does give developers the spanning set of active releases.  And it
also has Boost 1.46 so that suggests that Boost 1.46 should be the low
water mark.

Tully


>
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Jack O'Quin <jack.oquin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Ryan Gariepy
>> <rgariepy at clearpathrobotics.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Jul 26, 2012 6:51 PM, "Armin Hornung"
>> > <HornungA at informatik.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On 25.07.2012 03:51, Vincent Rabaud wrote:
>> >>> - supported Ubuntu releases: Precise and Quantal
>> >>
>> >> I find it troublesome to drop Oneiric support already now. Its
>> end-of-life
>> >> is in April 2013, and not everyone can update to the latest version
>> >> (currently 12.04) immediately. This will be a particular burden for
>> stack
>> >> maintainers and developers who should start with Groovy releases soon.
>> >> Robots and their base stations also require more testing and
>> integration of
>> >> other libraries and can't afford updating Ubuntu every 6 months.
>> >
>> > +1
>> >
>> >> Having support for three Ubuntu versions should be possible imo, and
>> with
>> >> the core stacks migrating to catkin it should also be less load for the
>> >> build server.
>> >>
>> >> Is there any particular feature that's required in Boost 1.48, or would
>> >> 1.46 from Oneiric be sufficient?
>>
>> +1; Boost 1.46 is fine for my needs.
>>
>> I have code I am still supporting on both Fuerte and Electric. I also
>> need to do Groovy development. Unless Groovy supports Oneiric, there
>> is no platform common to all three.
>> --
>>  joq
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