[ros-users] clarifying package installation 'best practices'?

[Jonathan Bohren]

I think this is a great idea. I can't say the likelihood that this gets
added to the wiki, but I'd be happy to accept a PR to add this to
http://rosindex.github.io

https://github.com/rosindex/rosindex/issues/142

-j

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 03:44 G.A. vd. Hoorn - 3ME <g.a.vanderhoorn at tudelft.nl>
wrote:

> All,
>
>
> just wondering whether we should somehow clarify what the current 'best
> practices' are for installing packages onto a ROS pc. I see a lot of
> people that assume that building from source (after cloning from a
> repository) is _the_ way to do things.
>
> Apart from the fact that this is essentially a waste of time and effort,
> it also often leads to problems (as they forget to check for and / or
> install all dependencies first), which then results in numerous ROS
> Answers questions. Having the sources locally also seems to invite some
> users to start editing / hard coding parameters (such as IPs / serial
> ports) into nodes, which is obviously unwanted.
>
> Somehow I have a feeling that the prominent placing of the repository
> URL in the Package Summary contributes to the confusion.
>
> Would it perhaps be an idea to add a one-liner to the 'Package Summary'
> on wiki pages of released packages that shows users how to install it
> ("Installation: sudo apt-get install ros-$release-pkg-name", although
> that is distribution specific)? Or a link to a (new) wiki page that
> explains how to install packages in general (with the from-source option
> shown last)?
>
>
> Gijs
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