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

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