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List:       orocos-dev
Subject:    [Orocos-Dev] [Orocos] Orocos Toolchain 2.6.0 Released !
From:       paul.chavent () fnac ! net (Paul Chavent)
Date:       2012-12-11 10:09:18
Message-ID: 50C7064E.6030604 () fnac ! net
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Hello Peter.

Some words about the last release :

(1) Thank you for having managed this new release.

(2) The downloads of the archives didn't work today : \
http://people.mech.kuleuven.be/~orocos/pub/stable/toolchain/v2.6.0/orocos-toolchain-2.6.0-src.tar.bz2 \
returns 404. Is it still possible to access independent archives of rtt and ocl ?

(3) I'm sorry, but i have submitted a wrong patch for the bug 979. I thought that you \
have read my comment http://bugs.orocos.org/show_bug.cgi?id=979#c6 , but the master \
repo still contains the error (a class keyword to replace by a struct).

(4) The bug 950 have been partially merged. I added some modifications (see \
http://bugs.orocos.org/show_bug.cgi?id=950#c8). Do you have some reviews on it ?

(3) The bug 926 haven't been merged. Do you have suggestions to make the patch \
acceptable ?

(5) I think you can close bug 853

Regards.

Paul.

On 12/03/2012 11:53 PM, Peter Soetens wrote:
> The Orocos Toolchain developers are content[1] to announce the 2.6
> release cycle of the Orocos Toolchain. As in the previous release
> cycle, the emphasis is on stability, incremental development and
> stable API's. The major additions in this release are:
> - stable typekits: we can now load typekits from all kinds of sources
> (hand written, ROS, yaml, typegen,...) without having conflicts in
> names or functionality
> - RTT added a CIRCULAR_BUFFER connection policy: drops oldest sample
> instead of newest
> - Revamped OCL reporter with NetCDF support: reporting is now about
> 100-1000 times faster / less cpu intensive than before - and is
> compatible and more efficient with KST2
> - Updated orogen component generation framework
> - C++ runaway exceptions in operations are now caught by RTT and
> bring your component to the Exception state.
> - Many updates to deployment: allow to connect provides() and
> requires() operations, have shutdown and daemon support.
> - Improved tlsf, logging and corba support for rttlua
> 
> Under the hood, these changes make a difference too:
> - We achieved hard real-time operation calls for rttlua-tlsf: due to
> stable typekits, we can now do typeinfo caching eliminating the last
> source of memory allocations and improving performance.
> - We log PID/TID numbers on Linux systems when Activity objects are
> created, such that you can relate to them using 'top'.
> - We mutex-lock the TypeInfoRepository to allow multi-threaded
> imports of typekits (typically in iTaSC / rttlua apps)
> - We moved the component loader to RTT such that you don't need OCL
> to load components in applications.
> 
> Some more details can be found on the 2.6 Release notes here:
> http://www.orocos.org/stable/documentation/rtt/v2.6.x/doc-xml/orocos-rtt-changes.html
>  
> You can download this release using the bootstrap script on the
> website, or pointing your autoproj configuration to the toolchain-2.6
> branch, or by fetching the ROS Fuerte Ubuntu packages.
> 
> http://www.orocos.org/wiki/orocos/toolchain/quick-start
> 
> Since the majority of the Orocos users uses one of these three
> methods, it remains to be seen if a 'dot' release will be made.
> I would only do so to communicate to newcomers that we do make
> bugfixes on a regular basis.
> 
> Thanks to the many Orocos users and developers who have contributed to
> this truely major release.
> 
> Peter
> 
> [1] adjective : satisfied with what one is or has; not wanting more or
> anything else.
> 


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