[ros-users] ROS Release Timeline

William Woodall william at osrfoundation.org
Tue Jun 18 17:01:57 UTC 2013


There is a vast amount of ROS that is regularly used on workstations (off
robot), and beginners will often pick the default Ubuntu. So as long as we
aren't talking about only supporting 32-bit, I don't see the controversy.


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Pavel Kirienko <
pavel.kirienko.list at gmail.com> wrote:

> > ubuntu.com still recommends 32-bit for their desktop default download.
>
> However, they recommend 64-bit for Ubuntu Server (
> http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server), so this is controversial:
> shouldn't ROS be mainly targeted for embedded systems, where Ubuntu Server
> seems more relevant?
>
> Regards,
> Pavel Kirienko.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 8:51 PM, William Woodall <
> william at osrfoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> They recently discussed dropping 32-bit support for PCL on the
>> pcl-developer's list, but I'll point out what I said to them, which is that
>> ubuntu.com still recommends 32-bit for their desktop default download.
>> So at least for now, I think 32-bit support should stay.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Jack O'Quin <jack.oquin at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Tully Foote <tfoote at osrfoundation.org>wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Related to this it has been suggested to me that we could setup a
>>>> bidding/kickstarter style campaign for different platform or arch support.
>>>>  If people are interested we could estimate what it would take to support
>>>> builds on extra arch/platform combinations for the duration of a release.
>>>>  And if there is enough community support to fund the project we can turn
>>>> on specific architectures.
>>>>
>>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>>
>>>> Also we are currently building i386 and amd64, we could consider
>>>> dropping i386 on some platforms to save resources.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Looking forward, I suspect most PC users will be 64-bit, and the main
>>> 32-bit platform will be ARM. That may be true already. Perhaps people would
>>> favor substituting some common ARM platform for i386.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Please take a look at the results of both surveys and the above
>>>> proposal and give your feedback.
>>>>
>>>
>>> +1 It's a good plan, balancing a great many divergent needs.
>>>  --
>>>  joq
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