Orocos Toolchain 2.4.0 Released !

A new major release of the Orocos Toolchain is available, the 4th since our 2.0 cycle started. This release confirms the trend of the previous releases: getting bugs out of the core libraries and extending/improving the tooling.

Notable improvements can be found in the rtt-lua scripting bindings, which is nearing its 1.0 release and widely used by now; a new appender for logging to Apache ChainSaw has been added to OCL's logging service; orogen/typegen has evolved further, including a generic POSIX mqueue transport and the RTT data flow implementation has been optimized to only have minimal copies of data. Various anoying bugs were fixed in RTT XML serialization, Taskbrowser and scripting.

There is a regression for Mac OS-X users regarding the type system (types in scripts don't work). We encourage users to test this version (or use git-bisect) and to submit bug reports such that we can nail down where this regression comes from.

You can read all the details in the changes document here:
www.orocos.org/stable/documentation/rtt/v2.4.x/doc-xml/orocos-rtt-change...

And download this release from here:
www.orocos.org/toolchain

A big thank you to all contributors which are helping out to keep the quality of our releases up.

Peter

Orocos Toolchain 2.4.0 Released !

On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 18:19 +0200, Peter Soetens wrote:
> A new major release of the Orocos Toolchain is available, the 4th since our
> 2.0 cycle started. This release confirms the trend of the previous releases:
> getting bugs out of the core libraries and extending/improving the tooling.
>
> Notable improvements can be found in the rtt-lua scripting bindings, which is
> nearing its 1.0 release and widely used by now; a new appender for logging to
> Apache ChainSaw has been added to OCL's logging service; orogen/typegen has
> evolved further, including a generic POSIX mqueue transport and the RTT data
> flow implementation has been optimized to only have minimal copies of data.
> Various anoying bugs were fixed in RTT XML serialization, Taskbrowser and
> scripting.
>
> There is a regression for Mac OS-X users regarding the type system (types in
> scripts don't work). We encourage users to test this version (or use git-
> bisect) and to submit bug reports such that we can nail down where this
> regression comes from.
>
> You can read all the details in the changes document here:
> www.orocos.org/stable/documentation/rtt/v2.4.x/doc-xml/orocos-rtt-change...
>
> And download this release from here:
> www.orocos.org/toolchain
>
> A big thank you to all contributors which are helping out to keep the quality
> of our releases up.
>
> Peter

How long does it usually take for a new release to hit the debian
packages?
Just out of curiosity actually.

Tim

Orocos Toolchain 2.4.0 Released !

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Tim Clephas
<t [dot] t [dot] g [dot] clephas [..] ...> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 18:19 +0200, Peter Soetens wrote:
>> A new major release of the Orocos Toolchain is available, the 4th since our
>> 2.0 cycle started. This release confirms the trend of the previous releases:
>> getting bugs out of the core libraries and extending/improving the tooling.
>>
>> Notable improvements can be found in the rtt-lua scripting bindings, which is
>> nearing its 1.0 release and widely used by now; a new appender for logging to
>> Apache ChainSaw has been added to OCL's logging service; orogen/typegen has
>> evolved further, including a generic POSIX mqueue transport and the RTT data
>> flow implementation has been optimized to only have minimal copies of data.
>> Various anoying bugs were fixed in RTT XML serialization, Taskbrowser and
>> scripting.
>>
>> There is a regression for Mac OS-X users regarding the type system (types in
>> scripts don't work). We encourage users to test this version (or use git-
>> bisect) and to submit bug reports such that we can nail down where this
>> regression comes from.
>>
>> You can read all the details in the changes document here:
>> www.orocos.org/stable/documentation/rtt/v2.4.x/doc-xml/orocos-rtt-change...
>>
>> And download this release from here:
>> www.orocos.org/toolchain
>>
>> A big thank you to all contributors which are helping out to keep the quality
>> of our releases up.
>>
>> Peter
>
> How long does it usually take for a new release to hit the debian
> packages?
> Just out of curiosity actually.

Normally it's a matter of days/next day. But for now, the build is
broken due to orogen not playing nicely. We're trying to solve it on
orocos-dev.

Peter

Orocos Toolchain 2.4.0 Released !

A Dimecres, 1 de juny de 2011, Tim Clephas va escriure:
> On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 18:19 +0200, Peter Soetens wrote:
> > A new major release of the Orocos Toolchain is available, the 4th since
our
> > 2.0 cycle started. This release confirms the trend of the previous
releases:
> > getting bugs out of the core libraries and extending/improving the
tooling.
> >
> > Notable improvements can be found in the rtt-lua scripting bindings, which
is
> > nearing its 1.0 release and widely used by now; a new appender for logging
to
> > Apache ChainSaw has been added to OCL's logging service; orogen/typegen
has
> > evolved further, including a generic POSIX mqueue transport and the RTT
data
> > flow implementation has been optimized to only have minimal copies of
data.
> > Various anoying bugs were fixed in RTT XML serialization, Taskbrowser and
> > scripting.
> >
> > There is a regression for Mac OS-X users regarding the type system (types
in
> > scripts don't work). We encourage users to test this version (or use git-
> > bisect) and to submit bug reports such that we can nail down where this
> > regression comes from.
> >
> > You can read all the details in the changes document here:
> > www.orocos.org/stable/documentation/rtt/v2.4.x/doc-xml/orocos-rtt-
changes.html
> >
> > And download this release from here:
> > www.orocos.org/toolchain
> >
> > A big thank you to all contributors which are helping out to keep the
quality
> > of our releases up.
> >
> > Peter
>
> How long does it usually take for a new release to hit the debian
> packages?
> Just out of curiosity actually.
>

if for debian packages are you referring to Ubuntu, Peter has his ppa,
http://ppa.launchpad.net/peter-soetens/

but I have seen only 1.10. OTOH, you could also do it yourself with:

http://www.orocos.org/wiki/rtt/frequently-asked-questions-faq/how-build-
debian-packages

Regards,

Leo