[Rock-dev] Fwd: RE: Avalon's Middleware

[Jan Sliwka]

Hello,

 

As for Orocos, If there is no need to know it to use Rock then it would be
simply enough to say it but I agree it is still important to say that it is
based on Orocos in introductions and so to take profit from its
popularity/community. I saw there is an object called Orocos used in the
ruby script, maybe you could rename it. As I said, those are just details
but sometimes details make a point, especially for beginners.

 

The PDF manual is the classical way to describe a system so I thought you
would do it. In the PDF everything is accessible through one scroll so you
can quickly have an overview of the system. Plus, you have the “number of
pages” criterion to judge 
 ;).  But, using a website only documentation
might be a good idea since it forces the users to “navigate”. Just for the
sake of equivalence with PDF, you could prepare a download-able version of
your website for offline users .   

 

Regards,

Jan

 

 

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Jan SLIWKA

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Software engineering, algorithms, robotics

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From: Sylvain Joyeux [mailto:sylvain.joyeux at dfki.de] 
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 10:57 AM
To: Jan Sliwka
Cc: 'Thomas Roehr'; rock-dev at dfki.de
Subject: Re: [Rock-dev] Fwd: RE: Avalon's Middleware

 

On 09/14/2012 12:11 PM, Jan Sliwka wrote:

 

Sometimes it is just details like for example the fact that you are based
Orocos. As a beginner I would go and read about Orocos and maybe say “oh,
that’s so complicated, If I have to learn how to use Orocos and Rock I will
never make it
” ß this is just a simulation 

Interesting point. I already saw people comment on "I'm using Rock and I am
reading this and that from the orocos documentation ...". The whole point is
that one does NOT have to read the orocos documentation ...

What do you think ? Would it be enough to simply stress that one does not
have to know Orocos to use Rock ? It is important to me that the link to
orocos is shown, as their work is very important for the well-being of Rock.




. Another detail (but you can’t help it and I find it fine), there are two
languages to which you have to integrate the code: C++ and Ruby. ROS uses
only one.   

True for the beginning, not true for more advanced projects (they often need
some Python)



Anyhow, I am closely following your project. 

Tell me when you have a Pdf version of the manual.

Is there a reason why do you need a PDF version of the manual ?



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