Re: Orocos / Catkin

Hi Jon,


On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Jonathan Bohren
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Ruben,
>
> [...]

>
> I noticed you have some merge requests up on gitorious for Catkin
> integration with Orocos. What's the status of that?
>

I've been able to compile the entire orocos_toolchain using
catkin_make_isolated. This means I converted all packages back to plain
cmake packages and provided a package.xml files and CMakeLists.txt for
packages that still need to be installed. This makes it possible to build
the entire toolchain with catkin_make_isolated and install it nicely.

I've successfully used it to build the toolchain on Mac OSX and Ubuntu.


> I think Catkin is almost ready for prime-time (once they add a unified
> <depend> tag and catkin_simple) but I know there might be some interest in
> making Orocos still build in a rosbuild environmnet. Do you think rosbuild
> should still be supported?
>
>
Personally I think we can safely drop rosbuild support for hydro and
groovy. Especially since for catkin we only use plain cmake and add a
non-intrusive package.xml file.

But the most critical question is how this will influence the workflow of
users. I've not yet used the converted toolchain enough in my own workflow
to give a good answer.

I have no idea what other developers think of this. Let's hear them out ;)


> Thanks! I hope all is well,
> -j
>
> --
> Jonathan Bohren
> Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics
> http://dscl.lcsr.jhu.edu/People/JonathanBohren
>
>


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