Orocos Toolchain v2.2.0 released

The Orocos development team is proud to announce the second major feature 
update release of the Orocos Toolchain. It marks an important milestone in our 
search for the ultimate real-time robotics software framework.

This release will allow Orocos users to use lighter and faster usage patterns 
for building components and applications. For example, we support ROS package 
trees for importing component packages, provide a script to create such 
packages automatically and we finally came up with cheat sheets to decorate the 
wall in front of your desk.

On the scripting side, Lua scripts can now be used as application deployment 
files. A new hierarchical state machine formalism in Lua is available which 
allows to describe simple to complex coordination algorithms. The Orocos 
scripting language has been upgraded to support executing top-level statements 
and mixing program, function and state machine definitions in one file. The 
deployment component can read these files directly for starting up 
applicaitons.

Also new is that this release sports the real-time logging service with a 
modified log4cpp as a backend.

A warning note regarding upgrades: the import mechanism in OCL's deployment 
component has once again with respect to older versions. You can find more 
details about this and other changes in the Toolchain 2.2 Changes document 
at[1].

As usual, you can download the release, or upgrade using the 'toolchain-2.2' 
or 'stable' git branches on the Gitorious Orocos Toolchain project.

http://www.orocos.org/toolchain

Your Orocos Toolchain maintainer,
Peter

[1] <http://www.orocos.org/stable/documentation/rtt/v2.x/doc-xml/orocos-rtt-
changes.html>
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