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On 06/18/2010 04:11 PM, Tully Foote wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Rosen
Diankov <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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has been mentioned several times in this list, and there<br>
are several references to it in <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://ros.org" target="_blank">ros.org</a>, suggesting that it
is<br>
somewhat supported by willow garage. We would like to specify a system<br>
dependency of our ros packages pointing to an easy_install package, is<br>
there a way to do this with the current build system?<br>
thank you,<br>
rosen,<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote"> We
have talked about adding easy_install as another way to install
packages. It would fall into the rosdep definnitions. There is a
ticket here to add support <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/2608">https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/2608</a>.
Doing
this was too much for the last overhaul of rosdep. Our hope is
to get a more robust rosdep syntax for the next generation. <br>
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Right now we are limited to a single package manager per OS. But you
can define arbitray bash scripts as rosdep targets. For example
log4cxx on hardy in ros/rosdep.yaml in boxturtle. How to do this is
demonstrated in the Tutorials in the rosdep documentation <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.ros.org/wiki/rosdep">http://www.ros.org/wiki/rosdep</a><br>
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stdeb (
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<a href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/stdeb">http://pypi.python.org/pypi/stdeb</a>
) can act intermediate between easy_install and apt-get. See, for
example, the pypi-install command. I am happy to add features to stdeb
that facilitate ROS if need be.<br>
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