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<font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: <b><font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">February 25, 2009 3:22:52 PM EST<font>
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<font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: <b><font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Re: [Orocos-Dev] OpenRave, OpenHRP3, or...<b><font>
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, S Roderick wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">So, I think only the project with the largest community, the most
<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">ambitious roadmap, and the best infrastructure for interoperability should
<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">be supported. And until you or someone else convinces me of the opposite
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<blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I really like that phrase, Herman, "infrastrcture for interoperability".
<blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I guess a good question is, does Orocos satisfy that?
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Most probably not... But I am _very_ sensitive to this aspect of software,
and will keep pushing people to think about it, and improve things. (It's
my role in the BRICS projects, by the way: I am responsible for what we
call the "Harmonization" work package, which goes even further than
interoperability, for example also including documentation, decoupling and
API design guidelines. But more about that later :-))
Anyway, my continuous focus points are:
- infrastructure: which is about providing _mechanisms_ that are useful in
as many use case applications as possible (each of the latter must be
able to configure and/or add appropriate _policies_.
- I believe (but cannot prove) that this focus on policy-independent
infrastructure makes reaching interoperability much easier.
Herman
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<blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">So, I think only the project with the largest community, the most
<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">ambitious roadmap, and the best infrastructure for interoperability should
<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">be supported. And until you or someone else convinces me of the opposite
<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I really like that phrase, Herman, "infrastrcture for interoperability".
<blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I guess a good question is, does Orocos satisfy that?
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Most probably not... But I am _very_ sensitive to this aspect of software,
and will keep pushing people to think about it, and improve things. (It's
my role in the BRICS projects, by the way: I am responsible for what we
call the "Harmonization" work package, which goes even further than
interoperability, for example also including documentation, decoupling and
API design guidelines. But more about that later :-))
Anyway, my continuous focus points are:
- infrastructure: which is about providing _mechanisms_ that are useful in
as many use case applications as possible (each of the latter must be
able to configure and/or add appropriate _policies_.
- I believe (but cannot prove) that this focus on policy-independent
infrastructure makes reaching interoperability much easier.
Herman
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Got missed off the list.
S
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