[ANNOUNCE] Orocos RTT 2.0 Release

*** Press Release 1/4/2007 -- For immediate release ***

The Orocos development team is proud to announce the second
major release of the Orocos Real-Time Toolkit, v2.0.0. This
release includes major feature enhancements such as increased
application start up times, major portability and build system
improvements, and a greatly simplified component interface.

"With this release, we finally achieved the ease of use our users were asking
for.", clarifies P. Soetens, lead developer of Orocos and currently employed
at the FMTC. "It struck me this morning that we had been postponing the
inevitable for too long, and a ground breaking successor for RTT 1.0 was
required to support sustained user interest.", he continues. "We had to cut
some corners though, in this short time frame we had set forth, not all
patches could be tested at runtime and we could not go around the necessary
API changes. However, I guarantee that the new release compiles on my laptop,
and earlier versions were reported to work with RTAI and Xenomai as well."

This unexpected release spurred a number of reactions in the community. K.
Gadeyne, a major contributor in embeddded Orocos applications,
complained: "It's no fun at all to find out that the API broke, the day you
return from a Nordic walking holiday. Even more, if I had been present prior
to this event, more rigorous testing of the new sources would have been
guaranteed.". Not all share his opinion though. W. Meeussen, known for
repetitive commit messages and banned from subversion access on several
occasions and projects, saw no harm in the drastic change, "I saw this
coming,", he clarifies, "the exponential growth in bug reports screamed for a
new approach. I believe 99% of the open bug reports can now be closed with
a 'WONTFIX', as these issues are no longer relevant. All in all, the
community is better off with version 2.0."

H. Bruyninckx, the father of Orocos, did not want to comment on code quality
or API correctness before he completed his study of the newly released
sources. "There's clearly a new paradigm going on here", he lets us
know, "although time will tell if this approach fits nicely with the
framework." "It's a bit unfair though that so much attention is drawn to the
RTT project.", adds R. Smits to the discussion, "We've been working very hard
towards the KDL 1.0 release which is now clearly overshadowed by
the 'one-size-fits-all' approach of the RTT v2.0."

As is always the case in Open Source software, the user will eventually vote
with his download and decide if the software lives up to the expectations.

The new release can be downloaded from here:

A big thank you to all developers and users who contributed to this project,

[ANNOUNCE] Orocos RTT 2.0 Release

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A Diumenge 01 Abril 2007 00:10, Peter Soetens va escriure:
> *** Press Release 1/4/2007 -- For immediate release ***
>
> The Orocos development team is proud to announce the second
> major release of the Orocos Real-Time Toolkit, v2.0.0. This
> release includes major feature enhancements such as increased
> application start up times, major portability and build system
> improvements, and a greatly simplified component interface.
>
> "With this release, we finally achieved the ease of use our users were
> asking for.", clarifies P. Soetens, lead developer of Orocos and currently
> employed at the FMTC. "It struck me this morning that we had been
> postponing the inevitable for too long, and a ground breaking successor for
> RTT 1.0 was required to support sustained user interest.", he continues.
> "We had to cut some corners though, in this short time frame we had set
> forth, not all patches could be tested at runtime and we could not go
> around the necessary API changes. However, I guarantee that the new release
> compiles on my laptop, and earlier versions were reported to work with RTAI
> and Xenomai as well."
>
> This unexpected release spurred a number of reactions in the community. K.
> Gadeyne, a major contributor in embeddded Orocos applications,
> complained: "It's no fun at all to find out that the API broke, the day you
> return from a Nordic walking holiday. Even more, if I had been present
> prior to this event, more rigorous testing of the new sources would have
> been guaranteed.". Not all share his opinion though. W. Meeussen, known for
> repetitive commit messages and banned from subversion access on several
> occasions and projects, saw no harm in the drastic change, "I saw this
> coming,", he clarifies, "the exponential growth in bug reports screamed for
> a new approach. I believe 99% of the open bug reports can now be closed
> with a 'WONTFIX', as these issues are no longer relevant. All in all, the
> community is better off with version 2.0."
>
> H. Bruyninckx, the father of Orocos, did not want to comment on code
> quality or API correctness before he completed his study of the newly
> released sources. "There's clearly a new paradigm going on here", he lets
> us know, "although time will tell if this approach fits nicely with the
> framework." "It's a bit unfair though that so much attention is drawn to
> the RTT project.", adds R. Smits to the discussion, "We've been working
> very hard towards the KDL 1.0 release which is now clearly overshadowed by
> the 'one-size-fits-all' approach of the RTT v2.0."
>
> As is always the case in Open Source software, the user will eventually
> vote with his download and decide if the software lives up to the
> expectations.
>
> The new release can be downloaded from here:
>
>
> A big thank you to all developers and users who contributed to this
> project,
>
> --
> Peter Soetens -- FMTC --