Re: What's going on with versionning ?

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Herman Bruyninckx <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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/>
>

Would https://github.com/orocos/rFSM/blob/master/doc/README.org also be
fine?

 R.

>
>  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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