The Player Project

Thanks Brian, that got the PTZ started. It seems that we got another bug
though:

Parsing configuration file "cmucam.cfg"
Using device table:
------------------------------------------------------------
0 driver cmucam2 id 6665:blobfinder:0
1                id 6665:ptz:0
------------------------------------------------------------
listening on port 6665
** Player [port 6665] client accepted from 127.0.0.1 on socket 5 **
player: driver.cc:254: virtual void Driver::PutCommand(player_device_id,
void*, unsigned int, timeval*): Assertion en <= device->command_size'
failed.
Aborted

...whenever I attempt to set the PTZ values. I tried the
client_libs/c++/test too, same results.

device [ptz] index [0]
subscribing (read) ... pass
reading data (attempt 0) ... pass
ptz: [0 0 45]
writing data (attempt 0) ... pass
reading data (attempt 1) ... fail
recv on stx failed with error [Success]
writing data (attempt 1) ... pass
unsubscribing ... fail
recv on stx failed with error [Success]
disconnecting ... pass


Thanks,
Radu.

On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:50:34PM -0700, Brian Gerkey wrote:
> Radu Bogdan Rusu wrote:
> 
> >>Just wondering if the PTZ code is complete for the CMUcam2. While trying 
> >>to
> >>use the basic...
> 
> Looks like a cut-n-paste bug from another driver.  Try:
> 
> driver
> (
>   name "cmucam2"
>   provides ["blobfinder:0" "laser::ptz:0"]
> )
> 
> 	brian.

Yours sincerely,
Radu Bogdan Rusu
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Cameron Stone wrote:
> Richard Vaughan wrote:
> 
>> The harder part:
>>
>> I think Player/Stage/Gazebo is not a good project or team name,

> One point: Yannick Brosseau and myself are trying to get PSG into the 
> debian repository. Yannick tried this a while back, and it got knocked 
> back partly because 'player' is a fairly generic, non-descriptive name. 
> There aren't any other 'player' packages in debian, but I don't think 
> they'll ever accept it as a package name.

That's silly. Try again.  There are lots of projects with completely 
arbitrary names.  Player and Stage have a nice rationale!

You could call it
  player-server
  player-stage or player-driver-stage for the stage plugin
  player-<plugin> or player-driver-<plugin> for other plugins
  player-gazebo  or player-driver-gazebo etc.
  playerv or player-utils

On the subject of an umbrella project name, it would have to be 
theatrical themed or Shakespeare themed...


Reed

Reed Hedges wrote:
> Cameron Stone wrote:
>
>> Richard Vaughan wrote:
>>
>>> The harder part:
>>>
>>> I think Player/Stage/Gazebo is not a good project or team name,
>
>
>> One point: Yannick Brosseau and myself are trying to get PSG into the
>> debian repository. Yannick tried this a while back, and it got knocked
>> back partly because 'player' is a fairly generic, non-descriptive
>> name. There aren't any other 'player' packages in debian, but I don't
>> think they'll ever accept it as a package name.
>
>
> That's silly. Try again.  There are lots of projects with completely
> arbitrary names.  Player and Stage have a nice rationale!

The rationale for the package name is based in the Sourceforge project
name which is playerstage.

Yannick

Yannick Brosseau wrote:
> Reed Hedges wrote:
>>Cameron Stone wrote:
>>>There aren't any other 'player' packages in debian, but I don't
>>>think they'll ever accept it as a package name.
>>
>>That's silly. Try again.  There are lots of projects with completely
>>arbitrary names.  Player and Stage have a nice rationale!
> 
> The rationale for the package name is based in the Sourceforge project
> name which is playerstage.

The packages are currently named as follows.
Source:	playerstage
producing Binaries:
	playerstage-server_1.6.2-1_i386.deb
	playerstage-utils_1.6.2-1_i386.deb
	libplayerstage-dev_1.6.2-1_i386.deb
	libplayerstage1.6_1.6.2-1_i386.deb
Source: playerstage-stage
producing Binaries:
	libplayerstage-stage1.6_1.6.2-1_i386.deb
	libplayerstage-stage-dev_1.6.2-1_i386.deb

I'd be happy to change them to:

Source: player-core
producing Binaries:
	player-server_1.6.2-1_i386.deb
	player-utils_1.6.2-1_i386.deb
	libplayer-dev_1.6.2-1_i386.deb
	libplayer1.6_1.6.2-1_i386.deb
Source: player-stage
producing Binaries:
	libplayer-stage1.6_1.6.2-1_i386.deb
	libplayer-stage-dev_1.6.2-1_i386.deb

and eventually something similar for gazebo.

Do we like this? It's extensible, and also it would still work if some
'core' modules got moved out of the main distro, such as lesser-used
server modules.

Cameron.
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