Re: Mini meeting Toulouse 22-23 april / Execution Engine

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Anthony Mallet wrote:

[...]
> Should we define "robotics components", which would implement particular
> functionalities (and be modeled with GenoM and CORBA and ...) and 
> "software components", which are classical reusable software entities
> which we can use to build the "robotics components".
> 
> Make sense ?
> 
This makes sense, but is a more or less trivial remark in the context
of Orocos: this project's goal is to `outsource' as much of its
functionality to other projects and concentrate on the small specific
robot things.

> | That's an interesting view point... One developer is the one who builds
> | the architecture; the other builds the application? Or did you have
>                                          ^^^
> actually the "robotics component".

Yes.

> In a previous mail from yours you had defined another user which builds
> an application with a set of "robotics components" (and I agree with
> that separation).

Okay, I'm a bit sloppy on words here :-) I now have: End Users,
Application Builders, Component Builders, and Framework Builders. And
this division is quite hierarchical.

Herman

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