Re: [Orocos-users] Orocos Toolchain 2.0.0 Released

On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, 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.

Congratulations for all the hard work!

Up to 3.0 :-) (Which, in my opinion, should make a similar big step towards
integration into large-scale (non-realtime) deployment and development
frameworks, with Eclipse being a primary target...)

Herman


> 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.
>

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