Player Progress

[Tim Niemueller]

Hi there.

I made some progress with the Player package but it's not done, yet.
After fixing some (trivial) GCC 4.3 related problems I'm currently
fighting with rpath being used. I have to remove it but it seems to be
necessary to link the server. I'm tired, have to sleep about it.
Tomorrow and probably also on Sunday won't be much time to work on this
so I probably will have nothing before Monday or even Tuesday. Arindam,
I'd suggest you have a closer look at Stage/Gazebo already. Although
Player is a dependency you could start creating specs or so if you are
otherwise bored ;-)

I'll keep you posted,
	Tim

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[Tim Niemueller]

Hi robot folks.

I'm getting there. Today I've built the player package and made rpmlint
somewhat happy. There is still stuff left to do, some of the things that
need work:
- have a system wide plugin directory (%{_libdir}/player/plugins seems
reasonable)
- Make sure plugins can be installed in a user's home directory (if
Player can be extended after compilation, still have to check that out),
~/.player/plugins seems reasonable
- Make Player use these directories
- Create sub-packages for example applications/plugins and remove them
from -doc package.
- investigate "funny" Python executables installed in %{_bindir}
- make sure Python executables are packaged into -python subpackage
- do test runs
- push GCC 4.3 and no-rpath patches upstream (will do after package
stabilizes)
- Koji scratch builds

I've uploaded the current state to http://fedorapeople.org/~timn/player
so feel free to grab, test and modify it. If you start working please
let me know to avoid doing work twice.

	Tim

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[Arindam Ghosh]

Hey Tim,

Good work with the rpath problem/patch in player. That is where i got
a lil' stuck...I was thinkin of relocating examples and/or plugins
entirely which you proposed in the objectives. +1 for /.player/plugins
And those python bytecodes is also another thing that seems weird.
Haven't really tested your spec file although it matches mine except
the -static package. I mean i actually removed libtool archives. Are
you sure they are required?

cheers,
Arindam