On Jan 8, 2012, at 14:29, Spencer Jackson <spencerandrewjackson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, I'm currently packaging a robotics simulator called Morse > ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770740 ). Morse allows its > simulations to be interacted with via multiple middleware protocols, > including sockets, YARP, pocolibs, ROS, and a few others. Upstream has > recommended that I extract support for these protocols into separate > subpackages, which seems very reasonable. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem > that we have packages for some of these middlewares. > > So, what is the best course of action? I wouldn't really object to > writing up a few more packages for these most of these optional > dependencies. However, packaging ROS might be... problematic > ( http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/robotics/2011/000529.html ), > and although an employee of their backer has indicated that he > has some interest, I wouldn't be surprised if it took a while. > I suppose one option would be to strip out the unsupported middleware, > until some point in the future when there is support, then > incrementally adding subpackages for each protocol. > > Any advice would be much appreciated. > > Spencer > -- > packaging mailing list > packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging On a related note if a few other people wanted to help I would like to get ROS packaged correctly for fedora as I use it for a few different projects. Thanks, Brennan Ashton -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
