Re: What's going on with versionning ?

On Tue, 17 Mar 2015, Ruben Smits wrote:

> This page should be updated: http://www.orocos.org/wiki/orocos/toolchain/getting-started and
> include the list we have below.

In a similar context: the link to rFSM (from the main page of
orocos.org) does not work anymore; it could be relinked to
  <http://people.mech.kuleuven.be/~bruyninc/rFSM/doc/>

> R.

Herman

> 
> 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
> 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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