[Rock-dev] buildconf-all / tools-lib_manager

[Martin Zenzes]

Just my two cents: Doing Frameworks means doing things right. Allowing 
many persons to profit from the work of smaller subgroup. And this takes 
time... Quick-Hacks have no place in a Framework...

On 09/18/2014 08:45 PM, Janosch Machowinski wrote:
> Actually, we don't want pluginlib at all.
> What we want is :
> https://github.com/ros/class_loader
>
> Which actually looks like a fine library.
>       Janosch
>
>
> Am 18.09.2014 17:44, schrieb Sylvain Joyeux:
>> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Janosch Machowinski
>> <Janosch.Machowinski at dfki.de> wrote:
>>> Actually you were still in Bremen, when we decided
>>> this.
>> I might have been in Bremen, now it does not mean that I was part of
>> the discussion. This is why these discussions should be *first* done
>> on the wiki + ML. Not everyone can be at a meeting (especially not any
>> non-DFKI person), and for decisions this important, *taking the time
>> to make the right decision* is critical. This impacts all of rock.
>> Libraries and framework alike. And if it turns out to be the wrong
>> decision, switching plugin systems is hell.
>>
>> Moreover, if something has been discussed more than 6 months ago,
>> refreshing everyone about it before doing it would be a good idea -
>> especially if there are no written trace - because (1) we all remember
>> what we want to remember after 6 months and (2) things might have
>> changed since then.
>>
>> I have always been against using anything home-grown, because having
>> our own in-house plugin system for something as big as rock is just
>> plain dumb. I also already offered that we should DEFINITELY try to
>> have a plugin system compatible with ROS'pluginlib. This is hopefully
>> written somewhere in the framework wiki.
>>
>> https://github.com/ros/pluginlib/ is almost ros-independent. What's
>> basically missing is to replace the ROS console messages by
>> base/console_bridge (a change which could very well be accepted
>> upstream), get rid of catkin (might be accepted upstream) and have a
>> different way to find the XML description files than using
>> ros::package. This is battle-hardened code (having been used for the
>> last 6 ROS releases) and a *lot* more widespread than lib_manager.
>>
>> Sylvain
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