[Rock-dev] Namespace changed for base::odometry

[Alexander Duda]

On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 17:21 +0200, Sylvain Joyeux wrote:
> On 04/02/2012 05:08 PM, Alexander Duda wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 16:35 +0200, Malgorzata Goldhoorn wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I changed the namespace for the odometry package from base::odometry  to
> >> odometry. You need to fix this in all your packages, which use this
> >> base-type.
> >> This change was already discussed with Sylvain.
> > I think the mailing list would be a more convenient place to discuss
> > things like this affecting quite a lot of components.
> >
> > Personally I am against changes like this before we release. We even
> > opened a wiki page for this:
> > http://rock.opendfki.de/wiki/WikiStart/OngoingWork/BaseTypesCleanup
> >
> > For all people using this type, this change also invalidates all old log
> > files.
> There are no oroGen types in the odometry namespace (and therefore no 
> need for convertions).
> 
> However, you are absolutely right. I do apologize for having done that 
> change that close to the release. What I propose is that we don't remove 
> the classes from base/types (reverting the change), but introducing 
> slam/odometry as the "new" package and notifying that people should use 
> it instead of base/types for these purposes.
> 
> Would that be OK for you ?

I am not really effected by the change. Therefore the people who are
using the type should decide if it is OK for them or not. I am fine with
both solutions.

I was only a bit surprised that changes like this are not discussed on
the mailing list and that this change may lead to inconsistent on the
web-page because we do not have a separation between master and next for
the documentation so far or that people are complaining about
rock-convert ;-).

Alex 


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