Re: orocos implementations

[email protected] Fri, 13 Dec 2002 17:14:53 +0100 (CET)

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On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 [email protected] wrote:

> How many orocos implementations exist?
> SmartSoft and Leuven ...??

These are all complementary things :-) Except maybe for the SmartSoft
stuff and the things that Anders Oreback is working on at KTH.

There will _never_ be something like _the_ Orocos implementation: Orocos
is meant to be infrastructure software, with which to build components
and applications. So, multiple implementations will always exist, I
guess. That is an inherent property; for example, because you can use
several ways to move a robot from A to B, and each of them will be valid
in particular cases.
Of course, it would be nice to re-use as much as possible.

I _do_ hope there will some day be an Orocos API... :-)

Herman