[Rock-dev] MARS goes Rock

[Malte Römmermann]

Hey,

we are going to extend rock with some simulation libraries. Some of these libraries currently have rather unfortunate names so we also want to take this opportunity to rename some of them. The following list includes the libraries with their current library names, a proposal for new names under which they would go open source and a one sentence description for each. We are not that creative concerning the library names, so if you have suggestions we are open for discussions. ;-)


lib_manager -> lib_manager
 - allows dynamic loading of libraries and gives access to the libraries

cfg_dfki -> cfg_manager
 - loads and saves configuration files using yaml-cpp and gives access to configuration parameters

data_broker -> data_broker
 - a library to simply exchange data between different independent moduls/libraries, including a timed callback handling of producing and receiving data

gui_core -> main_gui
 - a class implementing a QMainWindow with an interface to extend the menu, toolbar, and to add QWidgets to the gui

mars_core -> mars_core
 - basic library for MARS including MARS data types and enums

mars_graphics -> mars_graphics
 - includes the 3d graphics implementation of MARS

mars_sim -> mars_sim
 - the simulation library itself, which can also be used without any gui (to load meshes there is still a dependeny to mars_graphics, we are going to remove that one soon)

mars_gui -> mars_gui
 - a bunch of qt widgets to control the simulation and access the simulation data

mars_app -> mars_app
 - installs a binary, loading the MARS libraries to use MARS as standalone application

console_dfki -> log_console
 - a qt widget to print messages piped through the data_broker

gui_cfg -> cfg_manager_gui
 - a qt widget to access all configuration data

data_broker_widget -> data_broker_gui
 - a qt widget to access all data known of the data_broker

ode -> ode_mars
 - currently we use a patched version of ode, if we include the patch into our build process (autoproj) we don't need this library. Maybe I also get along without the patch, I will check that soon.

Best,
 Malte



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Malte Römmermann
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