[Rock-dev] Possible improvements in Rock tutorials

[Alexander Duda]

On 06/08/2012 02:59 PM, Martin.Azkarate at esa.int wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Here a new Rock user writing from ESA's ESTEC establishment in the 
> Netherlands, precisely from the Automation and Robotics Lab (section 
> code TEC-MMA).
>
> I have recently installed and started using Rock here and would like 
> to address a couple of problems that I encountered during this process.
>
> - Installation: the git protocol is blocked at ESA and the bootstrap 
> file that rock supplies for the installation makes use of the git 
> protocol by default. The way I chose to fix this was to edit the 
> bootstrap file in order to use http protocol for the downloading 
> process. However, I think it would be much nicer if the new user could 
> have both options directly available in case the git protocol is 
> blocked by his/her company without having to edit the bootstrap file 
> (which may not be evident).
Thank you for giving feedback.
I added an option for http.

>
> - Basics Tutorials: there is an error in the ruby script in the last 
> of the basic tutorials "Control through a Virtual Joystick", there is 
> a code line missing that should go at the beginning <require 
> 'vizkit'>, in order to make it run, otherwise an error appears 
> claiming "undefined constant Vizkit".
It is fixed in the repository and should be uploaded to the website 
during the night.

Alex

>
> That's all for now and thanks for some great tutorials,
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Martin Azkarate
>
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