Re: New versions and rodmap

On Wed, 6 Nov 2013, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote:

> Hi,

> do you have some plan to release a orocos 2.7 soon? And kdl? 
> 
> in another mail Ruben commented about stable branch of kdl..
> > AFAIK there is none currently. We probable could create a stable
> > branch from the latest release tag.
> 
> do you know when?
>

This is not a direct answer to your question, but a related remark: I think
it is time to organize a one-day face-to-face meeting with a handful of
"experts" and discuss the Orocos and KDL roadmaps... Especially since there
are two new kids on the block (or rather, they are almost there...) Markus'
microblocs and Azamat's new hybrid dynammics solver (which will _not_ be a
traditional Class library, but rather a microblocs application). In
addition, there is the "model-driven engineering" evolution that should be
consolidated, that is, with a minimum of the integration of not-so-new
formal models for:
- geometry: frames and kinematic chains
- physical units

In my view, all of the above can (should!) be done in a way that does not
compromise the ongoing Orocos RTT and KDL evolutions: they are
_complements_, not replacements. But I do expect them to have an influence
on how developers should _use_ RTT and KDL...

I can offer some travel support to participants with "to good to miss"
contirbutions to such a developers meeting :-)

> Regards,
> 
> Leo


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