[Rock-dev] PCL version in Rock

[Martin Günther]

Hi all,

On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 13:55:51 +0100
Javier Hidalgo Carrió <javier.hidalgo_carrio at dfki.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there any reason why Rock does not use the github repository for
> PCL? Instead we directly take the tall-bar file url: 
> 'https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/archive/pcl-1.7.1.tar.gz'
> 
> Javi.

I've been wondering the same thing; I'd also prefer if Rock used the
Git repo directly. At the moment I usually do that manually on my side,
but autoproj hates when I do that.

I've opened a PR here:

https://github.com/rock-core/rock-package_set/pull/109

While we're on it: PCL 1.7.1 is 2,5 years old, and there's been a ton
of improvements since. PCL 1.7.2 has been released 1,5 years ago, and
the PCL maintainers are preparing the 1.8.0 release at the moment; it
would be nice if we could upgrade at some point.

Cheers,
Martin

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