[Rock-dev] moving scripts to base/scripts

[Alexander Duda]

On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 15:45 +0100, Sylvain Joyeux wrote:
> On 03/19/2012 03:34 PM, Alexander Duda wrote:
> > As the manifest of base/scripts states it is the place for "scripts that
> > are generally useful in a Rock installation"
> >
> > Therefore I would like to move scripts which are pretty valuable but
> > scattered into different packages into this package.
> >
> > Example:
> > asguard/orogen/.../gps.rb
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> -1
> 
> In my mind, it is what bundles are meant for. 
For me bundles are scripts which are tightly bundled to specific
tasks/services (need a certain infrastructure to be useful). 

I am not sure if it is worth to add the extra complexity for ruby libs
like the gps.rb. Because in this case every ruby lib should be a bundle
(orocos.rb, vizkit) or where is the line which is separating them?
  
> There was two deployment 
> ideas:
> 
> 1) either we store common scripts such as the gps one you are
>     referring to in $ROCK_ROOT/bundles/rock/scripts, with a meaningful
>     folder structure OR
> 
> 2) we make $PREFIX/share/rock a bundle that is available to the
>     complete system, and make the packages install their scripts there
>     (also in a meaningful folder structure ;-))
> 
> Then,
> 
>    rock-run --scripts
> 
> Would discover which scripts are available (needs to be created) and
> 
>    rock-run gps/display
> 
> Would run the gps/display.rb script stored in scripts/gps/ in an 
> available bundle (already does that).

I agree this is very useful if there is more than just a lib like extra
display widgets, conversions scripts, etc. 

Alex

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