Hi all,
first of all sorry for the late reply. El 14/8/21 a les 22:17, Jochen Sprickerhof ha escrit: > Hi Jose, > > sorry for the late reply. I had a longer discussion with Timo about this > today. > > * Jose Luis Rivero <[email protected]> [2021-08-11 18:10]: >> Development upstream (Open Robotics) is now focused on the new >> ignition-gazebo simulator (considered like the sucesor of Gazebo) which >> depends on the whole Ignition family of libraries, some of them are the >> same libraries (like ignition-transport) than the ones used by Gazebo. > > Can you give some insights on how both versions compare feature wise? > Is it a drop in replacement so everyone could/should switch? > If not, when is that expected? Exactly, Jose your sentence is not clear. Should I understand that gazebo11 _only works with ign-transport8 and not ign-transport11? Why? I'm asking the same as Jochen. >> Problem is that both current versions of Gazebo and ignition-gazebo >> depend >> on different major versions of the ignition libraries (i.e gazebo11 used >> ign-transport8 and ignition-gazebo uses ign-transport11). Although >> upstream >> supports side by side installations of the Ignition family we have >> tried to >> have in Debian just one of them to make transitions easier and reduce the >> maintenance effort. I'm not sure if this problem can drive us to >> change our >> current practices. > > I would see those libraries as independent project for now and would > expect Debian to provide the latest versions by default once all > software is compatible. Jochen but who in debian provides the latest versions? Unstable, stable? >> One of the robotics simulators, Gazebo version 11, is still supported >> upstream until 2025 but no longer releases new versions. > > I'm not sure that is a good argument if there are no new versions. In > general I would expect Debian to ship the latest version of a software > so if I do a apt install gazebo, I would expect the latest version > providing /usr/bin/gazebo. I agree, but with the stable/testing/unstable schema is not easy. > On the other hand, If you think there is a large enough use base > (looking at popcon I'm not sure), it may make sense to provide the old > version with different package names. Note that if you want to support > this you would probably need to patch the old version to be compatible > with new libraries, compilers.. that do not support parallel installation. Where are installed the includes, pkg-config, etc. > So my view here would be to upload ignition-gazebo once it is ready and > then see if supporting the old version makes sense. I agree. Leo -- -- Linux User 152692 GPG: 05F4A7A949A2D9AA Catalonia ------------------------------------- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
