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

[Dirk Thomas]

My link was only meant as a first reference where to start looking into it.
The function "get_description" (which is called from the function I linked
to) looks like the more precise location.

Lets move this specific discussion to a ticket on the roswiki repository.

Thanks,
- Dirk

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:21 PM, G.A. vd. Hoorn - 3ME <
g.a.vanderhoorn at tudelft.nl> wrote:

> On 04/03/15 14:02, Dirk Thomas wrote:
>
>> Please propose a change to the package header in the wiki.
>> While the information might be platform specific it could be helpful.
>>
>> The patch will need to be applied to the following function:
>> https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/roswiki/blob/
>> c92f7e3a490e4b5a72cc7b290287a4e2d23d8425/macro/headers.py#L265
>>
>
> Are you sure that is the correct function? I would've expected to add an
> entry to the unordered list that gets generated in get_description(..)?
>
>
>
>  Please note that the package manifest available in the "data" variable is
>> not the package.xml file but the content of the manifest.yaml files
>> generated by the doc jobs.
>> See http://docs.ros.org/indigo/api/roscpp_tutorials/manifest.yaml for an
>> example manifest.yaml.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> - Dirk
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Jonathan Bohren <
>> jonathan.bohren at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  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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