[Playerstage-users] Gazebo and Player use?

[Douglas S. B. <db...@br...>]

I'm working on converting our Pyro software [1] over to use all of the 
new code, and adding Gazebo to our list of supported simulators.

I have a question on how best to have Gazebo and Player start up. We 
have a picklist menu that allows people to pick the simulator, and the 
world to use. In Gazebo, a player instance needs to be started in 
addition (I guess Stage starts it up automatically). I can automatically 
start up player after I start gazebo, but...

The question: should I make a player .cfg file for each Gazebo world, or 
can I have a single .cfg file for all possible world files?

Ideally, there would be a way to have player (or some parser) use the 
world file as the cfg file, and know exactly what drivers/interfaces/IDs 
to define. What is the recommended method?

Any hints would be appreciated,

-Doug

[1] See http://PyroRobotics.org/ for more info on Pyro.

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