On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 06:19:18PM +0000, José Matos wrote: > On 01/08/2012 10:29 PM, Spencer Jackson 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 > > Citing Voltaire//http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Voltaire/ > "Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien."/ > > The better is the enemy of the good. > > or in other variant translations > > The perfect is the enemy of the good. > The best is the enemy of the good. > > > Without knowing the complete details about those protocols I would say > that proceeding incrementally is a good strategy. > > -- > José Matos > > -- > packaging mailing list > packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging Alright, an incremental approach it is then! Thanks! Spencer
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