Re: What's going on with versionning ?

2015-03-17 15:07 GMT+01:00 Ruben Smits <[email protected]>:

> This page should be updated:
> http://www.orocos.org/wiki/orocos/toolchain/getting-started and include
> the list we have below.
>
> R.
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Ruben Smits <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> It should go very close to here: http://www.orocos.org/orocos/toolchain
>> IMO
>>
>
How do we edit this page ? I can modify the wiki, but this page seems to
work differently.


>
>> R.
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Willy Lambert <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2015-03-04 9:56 GMT+01:00 Peter Soetens <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>>> Hi Willy,
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Willy Lambert <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > Hi all,
>>>> >
>>>> > I just saw a reference to toolchain-2.8 branch in another discussion
>>>> on the
>>>> > ML, could someone explain what's going on  ?
>>>>
>>>> Maybe everybody was looking at me...
>>>>
>>>> >
>>>> > The 2.7 version seem to have had hard time with multiple "rc". Is
>>>> this a way
>>>> > to go out of a dead end ?
>>>>
>>>> 2.7 was only released as Debian packages in the ROS repositories,
>>>> currently at 2.7.0-9.
>>>> I must admit I also can't find these version tags on github, where
>>>> they should be.
>>>>
>>>> The lack of announcements of these releases on the mailing lists is
>>>> clearly very confusing. The reason for this is
>>>> that the release procedure (but also the review of branches/patches) I
>>>> could do until 2.6 is
>>>> not working anymore for me. From a timing/effort perspective.
>>>>
>>>> > I'm also interested in the ROS/Orocos version compatibility change.
>>>> As far
>>>> > as I know 2.7 was compatible with Ros::Indigo.
>>>>
>>>> It is, if you build from source. If you want to use the ROS .deb
>>>> binaries, you're limited to what is
>>>> in the ros repositories:
>>>>
>>>> fuerte : toolchain-2.6
>>>> hydro : toolchain-2.7
>>>> indigo : toolchain-2.8
>>>>
>>>> So we only create binaries for one Orocos major version per ROS release.
>>>>
>>>> toolchain-2.8 branched from master last year, but afaikt it's still in
>>>> sync with master.
>>>>
>>>> The majority of the changes of 2.7 vs  2.8 are on the 'extensions'
>>>> level, so not API's but extra
>>>> functionality. On the ROS extension side, lots of support was added to
>>>> be compatible with
>>>> the ROS primitives (so access/modify Orocos primitives using ROS
>>>> tools). On the orogen
>>>> side, lot of work was done to get the masters of orocos-toolchain back
>>>> in sync with the masters
>>>> of rock. That's also a major step forward.
>>>>
>>>> 2.8 and 2.7 are not binary compatible, but are source-level compatible.
>>>>
>>>> Finally, we discussed a few weeks ago to create release notes for this
>>>> 2.8 release,
>>>> and properly tag it, since we all agree that before it was better. But
>>>> I need more than a
>>>> few hours to prepare that the 'old way'. Many hours passed since, and
>>>> there always seems
>>>> to be a higher priority task in front of it.
>>>>
>>>> Peter
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thx a lot for clarify this. I think we should add this compatibility
>>> table in some public place :
>>> "
>>> fuerte : toolchain-2.6
>>> hydro : toolchain-2.7
>>> indigo : toolchain-2.8
>>> "
>>>
>>> I didn't find any relevant place, does anyone have an idea ?
>>>
>>> It seems that some of the core dev team have had private chat on this,
>>> it would be great to share such discussions ;p. If I understand well the
>>> team decided to change the way publication is done with 2.7 for a new
>>> lightweight way, but no communication has been done on this... Maybe
>>>
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