Re: What's going on with versionning ?

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Willy Lambert <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>
> 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.
>
>

You're right, I don't know by heart, but we can edit the getting started
wiki page instead?

R.


>
>>> 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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