Hello everyone, I am the main developer of a set of software packages called RobOptim and I would like to know if they would be eligible for inclusion in Fedora. * Description: RobOptim is a set of packages designed to make robotics non-linear optimization problem easier to solve. It is composed of several packages which are focusing on different kind of problem related to robotics, especially humanoid robotics. roboptim-core is a C++ generic library which aims at defining an optimization problem in a generic way, it also provides mathematical tools such as finite difference computation and gradient checks. However roboptim-core does not contain any optimization algorithm in itself, it links against solvers such as CFSQP (main one we are using but unfortunately not open) and Ipopt (a draft implementation has been done, need some testing though), etc. roboptim-trajectory is a toolbox which contains trajectory definitions, cost functions and constraints which can be used to build optimization projects. Optimization has many interests in robotics (and RobOptim can optimize whatever problem is given as long as it is well-formed) but as far as I am concerned I use it to optimize humanoid robot trajectories. This project is eight months old and has been used on Linux and Microsoft Windows. Of course, I am volunteering to maintain the package. I have no experience in "real" packaging but I still have messed around with RPMs a bit. You can see a a first try here: http://roboptim.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=roboptim/package.git;a=tree;f=rpm/roboptim-core/0.1 Note that it was not designed with Fedora's policies in mind, so it probably is not acceptable in this state... RobOptim packages are using GNU Autoconf, Automake and Libtool, Doxygen for documentation and provides a (small) test suite which is regularly run through Valgrind. * External dependencies: - Boost (>=1.34.1) - GNU Libtool ltdl * Web site: http://roboptim.sourceforge.net/ * License: - LGPL for roboptim-core/roboptim-trajectory - For plug-ins: LGPL or whatever is compatible with the license of the solver. I do not really know what is Fedora's policies regarding scientific packages (minimum user base? quality?), so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, -- Thomas Moulard _______________________________________________ Fedora-robotics-list mailing list Fedora-robotics-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-robotics-list
