Re: [Orocos-users] Orocos Toolchain 2.0.0 Released

On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 10:37:01PM +0200, Peter Soetens wrote:
> The Orocos developers are proud to announce their first release 
> of the next-generation Orocos Toolchain for real-time and distributed 
> robotics. We wish to express our gratitude to everyone contributing
> to this release which made it effectively the best real-time and 
> cross-platform robotics software framework in the world. We see
> this as a starting point to build great applications for all our different
> kinds of robots and machines.
> 
> The new Orocos Toolchain aims to provide all libraries, programs and 
> tools to quickly create machine control applications. It consists of the 
> Real-Time Toolkit 2.0, Orocos Component Library 2.0 and the orogen 
> code generator 2.0.
> 
> The most notable changes are:
> * Typekits
>   Typekits tell Orocos about the data you want to use. 'typegen' 
>   provides full code generation for typekits from existing C++ headers 
>   which contain user defined classes and structs. Orocos is the only 
>   framework that transparently supports C++ user defined types.
> * Real-time Scripting
>   The syntax is largely backwards-compatible, but allows far more 
>   expressive scripts.
> * Services & Plugins
>   The Orocos components are run-time extensible with plugins 
>   and services, which offer extra functionality only to components 
>   that need it.
> * Data Flow interface and Transports
>   A dramatic improvement in setting up and connecting data flow ports
>   allows for highly re-usable components and flexible system architectures.
>   Real-time inter-process data communication and efficient multi-protocol
>   communications can be created from any port
> * Operations interface
>   Orocos components provide an asynchronous remote method 
>   interface to peer components through a single comprehensive 
>   primitive, the operation.
> 
> RTT 1.x users can check out this link to see a list of all changes:
> http://www.orocos.org/stable/documentation/rtt/v2.0.x/doc-xml/orocos-rtt-changes.html
> 
> Upgrading instructions and scripts can be found here:
> http://www.orocos.org/wiki/rtt/rtt-20/upgrading-rtt-1x-20
> 
> If you want to install the Orocos Toolchain on your system, 
> you can find out how by visiting this page:
> http://www.orocos.org/toolchain
> 
> Finally, start building components here:
> http://www.orocos.org/stable/documentation/rtt/v2.0.x/doc-xml/orocos-components-manual.html
> 
> All files are also available with the .pdf extension.
> 
> We will focus now on polishing the documentation, website and examples,
> and help out new users and with migrations.
> A list of features for the 2.1 release will be announced later on.
> 
> The Orocos Toolchain developers.

I for one welcome our new "Not a fluffy fifo" over-release!

Good work Peter!

Towards 3.0!

Markus











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