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Regards,
Leo

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 --