[Fedora Robotics] Welcome to the world of robotics in Fedora

[Arindam Ghosh]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Tim Niemueller <tim at niemueller.de> wrote:

> As you see the mailing list has been created and we can start
> discussing! Here are the first notes I'd like to share.
>
Great!!

> I could not resist and gave packaging Player a try. It's not done yet
> but I hope to have something this weekend but there is another
> appointment and thus I don't know for sure. Additionally there was an
> F-9 installation and new stuff to play with slowing me down a bit :-)
> Arindam, what's your progress on Player?

yeah yeah...i will put it up soon prolly in this weekend :)

> I've talked to the guy who used Player/Gazebo in our project: the
> problem that he faced was, that when adding a new sensor model, it would
> only be compiled if it was used in another model. Seems to be a buildsys
> related issue that has to be re-evaluated.
>
> We should have a look anyway about proper ways to extend the base
> functionality of Gazebo and if this can be done without using the source
> of Gazebo. All that should be necessary is a yet-to-be-defined -devel
> package. It should also provide some well-known paths where to put
> custom code, like /usr/lib{,64}/gazebo/... and ~/.gazebo/... This may
> need some tweaking but I don't know. Jeff, this would be something you
> intern could look into, right?
>




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