[ros-users] ROS usability

[Arkapravo Bhaumik]

Agree on the redundancy of packages (read xkcd zindabad) and the boost
issues ! Have faced serious boost issues.


On 20 February 2014 18:36, Michael Fritscher <
michael.fritscher at telematik-zentrum.de> wrote:

> Hallo everybody,
>
> just my 2 cents:
>
> In my oppinion, the ROS core is fairly well documented and quite useable -
> both for beginners and advanced users. The problem are in my oppinion many
> of the packages. Most of the packages are more or less drivers for robots
> or middleware things. But even e.g. on the usb camera side there are at
> least 5 different drivers (see http://www.iheartrobotics.com/
> 2010/05/testing-ros-usb-camera-drivers.html and
> http://pharos.ece.utexas.edu/wiki/index.php/How_to_Use_a_
> Webcam_in_ROS_with_the_gscam_Package ) - why the heck we do need at least
> 5 drivers for a simple thing like capturing webcam pictures?! I know that
> there are different requirements, but forking isn't always the best
> solution...
>
> Additionally, many plugins aren't that usable. Are little example are
> localization using 1 or 2 video cameras. viso2_ros doesn't need sse2, which
> is a no-go for ARM-cpus which are getting more and more popular.
> PTAM is at least compiling, but it even fail to correctly display the
> video image (both on arm and on a normal x64 laptop). Sometimes it
> remembers me about https://xkcd.com/927/ ...
>
> Another problem is in my oppinion the library-hell problem. ROS packages
> are tightly tied with specific library version (e.g. libboost) which
> (roughly) exists only on one specific distro-version. This makes it almost
> inpossible to use binary versions of ros on another distros. Perhaps this
> can be solved that the binary packages depend on e.g. "libboost-1.42 |
> roslibboost-groovy" - so either the distro-version or a ros-own version can
> be used.
>
> Best regards,
> Michael Fritscher
>
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