[Fedora Robotics] robots-udevrules package for nbc and nxt_python, wedo and similar

[Tim Niemueller]

On 09.03.2011 19:08, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Tim Niemueller <tim at niemueller.de> wrote:
>> As I suggested earlier, I'm strict against a catch-all robots-udevrules
> 
> Happy to rename it to something narrower. Can you look at this list
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/11.2.0/Robotics_plan#Test_matrix and help me
> figure out how we can refine the name? These robots and boards have a
> few things in common:
> 
>  - they are usb (some bluetooth)
>  - they have an education focus
> 
> edurobots-udevrules?

That still is way to vague. I suggest creating a package per
robot/board/platform/sensor/actuator. If there is a canonical software
package for a particular robot, e.g. a library most commonly used to
access it, pack the rules in there (examples are libphidget or
libunicap). Arduinos are not even robot-specific, so it would be even
more terrible to stuff that into this package. There seems to be an
arduino package. Having a noarch arduino-udevrules sub-package seems to
be the most sensible, or at least a separate package of that name.
Please do not try to pocket all kinds of hardware into a single package
just because that's they way you use it in your context.

	Tim

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