[Rock-dev] place for general_processing packages

[Alexander Duda]

On 12/04/2012 01:28 PM, Jakob Schwendner wrote:
> On 12/04/2012 12:51 PM, Felix Rehrmann wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> currently I'm writing a component that provides the ability to add ports
>> dynamically.
>> The data from these port will automatically be converted into doubles
>> and collected into one or more vectors, which are buffered and made
>> available inside the component. The purpose of that is to integrate
>> generic algorithms (e.g. learning algorithm) that only take vector as
>> input. So the same algorithm can be used for
>> a different set of input data.
>>
>> There are two packages general_processing and orogen/general_processing,
>> which are currently developed locally. I want to put them into the
>> public rock part. First best choice would be to put them into tools. But
>> as there is already the orogen-package the standard
>> library/component-naming would not work.
>>
>> So any suggestions, where to put the packages? How to solve this?
>>
>> Thanks and all the best!
>> Felix
>>
> I would put that en par with the aggregator/transformer. Those are in
> drivers.
>
> Jakob
+1

I am not so happy about the name "general_processing" because this can 
basically mean anything. Therefore, I would really look for a more 
descriptive name.

Maybe vector_processing or sample_demux would work better for this kind 
of base orogon component.

Alex

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