[Announce] Orocos Toolchain v2.3.0 released !

All the buzz was right, a new release was anxiously waiting to become official, 
only being released when all tests pass on all platforms. We got it rock-solid 
on various Linux flavors, Windows (Visual Studio) and Mac OS-X. Focusing on 
usability instead of features, it accumulates tons of suggestions and 
improvements offered by the community, translated in 262 patches alone 
for RTT between 2.2.0 and 2.3.0.

You can find all the relevant download links and documentation on this page:
http://www.orocos.org/toolchain

Most notable enhancements are:
* Bootstrapping in ROS and non-ROS environments is supported 
  See http://www.orocos.org/wiki/orocos/toolchain/getting-started
* Many improvements in the build system (UseOrocos-RTT.cmake)
* Building components without depending on OCL
* Full Win32 support on Visual Studio 2005 -> 2010
* Multi-target builds work by setting an OROCOS_TARGET environment 
variable (optional), a multi-target runtime will always work, even without this variable set.
* We support Xerces-2 and -3 now for reading property XML files

The most notable disruption in this release is that all (component) libraries 
are now by default installed in a 'target/' subdirectory of the orocos/ component 
directory. If you use the UseOrocos-RTT.cmake macros, this transition should 
be seamlessly. If you don't want such a target subdirectory, define 
the OROCOS_SUFFIX to the empty string in your CMake configurations.

This and other caveats and improvements can be read on this page:
http://www.orocos.org/stable/documentation/rtt/v2.3.x/doc-xml/orocos-rtt-changes.html
It is important to read this page first before you upgrade.

ROS users may also choose to wait until the orocos_toolchain_ros 
updates to this release, later this week.

Peter
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