[Cialug] Adventures in ROS

[David Champion]

What is ROS?

-dc

On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Todd Pierce <toddcpierce at gmail.com> wrote:

> Crew,
>
> So, I got ROS more or less working, but anybody who is going to try this
> has to remember that their stuff is not all nice and packaged (or working)
> like they say it is.
>
> All I wanted to use it for was as a message passing infrastructure with a
> good solid Lisp integration. I´m glad I had no other expectations.  The
> latest release (Kinetic) doesn´t look like it was tested on Ubuntu 16.04
> and most components are not even available in installable (pkg or source)
> form yet.
>
> After the Desktop Full installation failed due to missing files in the
> cloud, I did the minimal Desktop installation which failed for the same
> reason.  Then I did the Bare Bones installation.  That worked, but that
> meant installing anything else from source, since nothing else had package
> installations available for Kinetic yet.  Even source installation didn´t
> work for nearly every component so I removed ROS and tried the minimal
> Desktop installation again, which worked (probably because I had a leftover
> environment at that point).
>
> At this point, a few weeks had gone by and they actually had a package
> installation of ROSLisp_repl available that didn´t crash.  That installed
> everything I needed to do development.  The tutorials even worked.
>
> This does not mean you´re out of the woods with ROS if you want to try it.
> You see, it seems anything beyond what I installed requires ROSJava to be
> installed first.  There is no package for that available for Kinetic and I
> have not found any installation process from source that works.  It appears
> it has been spun off as a project of its own, which is fine, if it were not
> required (with a specific configuration) by a bunch of other things during
> installation.  That´s a developing drama I can report on later.
>
> So, not that anybody cared, but I just thought I would mention that if
> someone were building robots.
>
> -Todd
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