<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra">Hi Thomas, </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Thanks for the feedback. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Thomas Moulard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas.moulard@gmail.com" target="_blank">thomas.moulard@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Tully Foote <<a href="mailto:tfoote@osrfoundation.org">tfoote@osrfoundation.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi Everyone,<br>
><br>
> To facilitate the release timeline discussion please take a moment to fill<br>
> out this survey about your ROS usage past and expected so we can make an<br>
> informed decision going forward.<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JY63R3Z" target="_blank">https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JY63R3Z</a><br>
><br>
> We will keep this survey open through the end of the week.<br>
<br>
</div></div>Hi Tully,<br>
thanks for putting this form altogether.<br>
<br>
Just two remarks:<br>
<br>
1. The question 3 is difficult to answer.<br>
<br>
In my case (a bit extreme but still :) I use three distributions:<br>
- Ubuntu *LTS* Lucid on my robot (yes not even the last LTS but we<br>
have constraints on this...)<br>
- LTS or last Ubuntu version for the students at the lab (simulation)<br>
- I also use Debian Sid myself to see problems ahead and so that I can<br>
package software.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>Do your best to answer the questions in their strictest form. The questions are not necessarily mutually exclusive, and are really targeted at helping decide which versions of Ubuntu to build binary packages for going forward. </div>
<div style> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<br>
2. The question five is also a bit difficult to understand. I mean I<br>
guess all ROS enthousiasts<br>
here would love to see ROS packaged everywhere. And to nitpick a bit,<br>
binary packages on<br>
Gentoo and Arch are kind of rare. Shouldn't the "binary" word be<br>
removed from this question<br>
(...or your goal was it to really make a differentiation on this?)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>I've reworded it to just say packages built. </div><div style> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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A last note: most of the users here will probably be Ubuntu users.<br>
Don't take it that we are<br>
all very happy with Ubuntu. Most of them are but my robotics lab<br>
practically switch to Ubuntu<br>
*because* it is so difficult to use ROS with another distribution<br>
(Fedora in this case).<br>
So please don't take this as a fair estimation of Ubuntu popularity in<br>
robotics lab over the world ;-)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>We understand, that's why we threw in this question. It's not completely relevant to the current discussion, and I don't expect to switch our main packaging efforts in the short term. But looking out a little bit farther knowing what platforms are of the higher interest will be most valuable. </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>In our recent infrastructure upgrades we have done our best to make the infrastructure extendable to other distros. If you or anyone else is interested in working on supporting binary packages for Fedora or another platform send us an email on the ros-sig-buildsystem mailing list. In particular bloom has been designed to support plugging in new package generators. We can help provide guidance on where to get started. Knowing what distro is of highest interest to the community might help catalyze progress in this area. </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>And beyond packaging we are also working hard to make it easier to compile from source on any platform. We've made great strides in that direction and hope to keep improving. </div><div style>
<br></div><div style>Tully</div><div style><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Best,<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">--<br>
Thomas Moulard<br>
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