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Subject:    [ros-users] [Discourse.ros.org] [General] New Software Release - VCI (Version Control Index)
From:       ros.discourse () gmail ! com (Daniel Stonier)
Date:       2017-02-19 15:04:14
Message-ID: topic/1351 () discourse ! ros ! org
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Dear ROS community,

**About**

[vci](https://github.com/stonier/vci) is a utility designed to work with \
@dirk-thomas's [vcstool](https://github.com/dirk-thomas/vcstool) to manage the sprawl \
of software .rosinstall/.repos links we were having to keep track of for our many \
workspaces. It does this by providing an interface to interact with an index of url's \
to .rosinstall/.repos files that can be relative to the index file or existing \
elsewhere (local machine, network or internet). i.e. no more having to traverse half \
a dozen web links to some documentation where you could copy/paste the url you'd \
forgotten or couldn't remember the exact syntax for.

[vcstool](https://github.com/dirk-thomas/vcstool) is wonderfully simple. It does it's \
job directly with vcs folders and keeps things simple by making available pipes to \
download tools instead of trying to handle download esoterics itself. This tool also \
doesn't try and handle the different download esoterics, just the 95% use case \
pattern we had, which is probably what most people here have - downloading from \
passwordless github served or local network file served .rosinstall/.repos.

**Installation**

> From pypi or ppa. See the documentation link below.

**Documentation**

* [vci/README.md](https://github.com/stonier/vci/blob/devel/README.md)

**Status**

Not much left to do. If it's useful, I'll see if I can get this moved into the ros \
apt repo.






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