Hi Jeff and Arindam. As you see the mailing list has been created and we can start discussing! Here are the first notes I'd like to share. I could not resist and gave packaging Player a try. It's not done yet but I hope to have something this weekend but there is another appointment and thus I don't know for sure. Additionally there was an F-9 installation and new stuff to play with slowing me down a bit :-) Arindam, what's your progress on Player? I've talked to the guy who used Player/Gazebo in our project: the problem that he faced was, that when adding a new sensor model, it would only be compiled if it was used in another model. Seems to be a buildsys related issue that has to be re-evaluated. We should have a look anyway about proper ways to extend the base functionality of Gazebo and if this can be done without using the source of Gazebo. All that should be necessary is a yet-to-be-defined -devel package. It should also provide some well-known paths where to put custom code, like /usr/lib{,64}/gazebo/... and ~/.gazebo/... This may need some tweaking but I don't know. Jeff, this would be something you intern could look into, right? Regards from Aachen, Tim -- Tim Niemueller <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> www.niemueller.de ================================================================= Imagination is more important than knowledge. (Albert Einstein)