[ros-users] Indigo buildfarm ready for releases

[Armin Hornung]

On 2014-03-27 16:45, Jack O'Quin wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Jochen Sprickerhof 
> <ros-users at jochen.sprickerhof.de 
> <mailto:ros-users at jochen.sprickerhof.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     * Tully Foote <tfoote at osrfoundation.org
>     <mailto:tfoote at osrfoundation.org>> [2014-03-24 20:58]:
>     > We're pleased to announce the ROS build farm for Indigo Igloo is now
>     > available.  It includes over 180 packages already for Ubuntu
>     13.10, Saucy
>     > Salamander, and Ubuntu 14.04, Trusty Tahr. We expect that number to
>     > continue to grow rapidly. Installation instructions already
>     exist for
>     > Ubuntu using debians or for compiling from source [1], and you
>     can see the
>     > status of Indigo packages on this page:
>
>     Do you plan to support Indigo on older Ubuntu versions (like 13.04 or
>     12.04) as well? Point is, that the normal migration tactic is to have
>     both ROS versions installed and switch them to the new version one
>     ofter
>     the other. At the moment this wouldn't be possible, as Hydro is only
>     available until 13.04 (cf. [1]), whereas Indigo starts with 13.10.
>     Initially the plan was to support Hydro on 13.10 (see [2]), but
>     maybe it
>     would be easier to support Indigo on an older version.
>
>     Having multiple versions installed was always a selling point for ROS
>     (given that it's so monolithic), so I think we should really work on
>     providing upgrade paths to our users.
>
>     Cheers Jochen
>
>     [1] http://lists.ros.org/pipermail/ros-users/2014-January/068162.html
>     [2] http://lists.ros.org/pipermail/ros-users/2013-May/053252.html
>
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>
>
>
> +1 I fully agree: this zero-overlap plan will drastically delay 
> adoption of Indigo.

+1 for the same reasons!


-- 
Armin Hornung
Humanoid Robots Lab, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg
Contact: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~hornunga

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