[ros-users] python easy_install dependencies

[Andrew Straw]

On 06/18/2010 04:11 PM, Tully Foote wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Rosen Diankov
> <rosen.diankov at gmail.com <mailto:rosen.diankov at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     easy_install has been mentioned several times in this list, and there
>     are several references to it in ros.org <http://ros.org>,
>     suggesting that it is
>     somewhat supported by willow garage. We would like to specify a system
>     dependency of our ros packages pointing to an easy_install package, is
>     there a way to do this with the current build system?
>     thank you,
>     rosen,
>

> 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 https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/2608. 
> 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. 
>
> 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
> http://www.ros.org/wiki/rosdep

stdeb ( http://pypi.python.org/pypi/stdeb ) 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.

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