[Rock-dev] polishing rock / Rock Tutorials

[Alexander Duda]

On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 09:19 +0200, Sylvain Joyeux wrote:
> On 03/31/2012 01:20 PM, Alexander Duda wrote:
> > Some other remarks:
> > ->  installing rock is producing lots of warnings because some packages
> > does not have a branch next/stable. We should get rid of this.
> +1
> 
> > ->  we should add the package set rock-tutorials by default but do not
> > install it because then someone could just call autoproj build xxx to
> > install a new tutorial
> Not sure about that. Other opinions ?
> 
> > ->  maybe we can zip the default installation, because it took ages to
> > download everything from gitorious.org. (The user should still call
> > update before building it.)
> I'm suspecting for a while that our issues with gitorious have nothing 
> to do with gitorious, but with the DFKI network. I have not done proper 
> tests, but bootstrapping rock from my machine at home was *really fast* 
> on the update phase. Plus, I asked on orocos-users and people said that 
> they never experienced the kind of connection drops that we experience 
> regularly.
I cloned everything from home and autoproj fall back to http because of
a not responding gitorious server. In total it took around 30 minutes to
clone the basic rock stack (I have a 32 MBits/sec Internet connection).

> 
> Moveover: you then need to make sure that the zipfile is always up to 
> date. Plus, the zipfile will probably be quite big. And, finally, where 
> do we put the zip file ?
> 
> -1
It does not matter if the zip file is old because autoproj can update
the stack after it was unpacked. But I agree we do not really have a
place for the zip file.

Alex

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