[ros-users] ROS usability

[kamicc olo]

Been facing an issue with SSE and ARM for some time either. Not
mentioning libboost...

On 2/20/14, Arkapravo Bhaumik <arkapravobhaumik at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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