[PlayerStage-Gazebo] -g option

[Esposito M. <mar...@in...>]

Dear Sirs,
I'm using Player and Gazebo for simulated experiments togheter with genet=
hic 
algorithms and neural networks. I'm doing trials of about 64000 simulatio=
n cycles,
each cycle lasts at least 1,5 minutes. 
For this purpose I created a java procedure named GazeboCommander that gi=
ven the Player config file/s and the Gazebo world file, open the gazebo s=
erver on the next free port, and Player/s connecting on that gazebo port =
and listening on subsequential ports. An example:

I ask the procedure to open a gazebo with 3 Players connecting to it. I s=
imple give it one gazebo world file and 3 player config files and this ma=
kes a new instantiation of a GazeboCommander class that 'll open the gaze=
bo server on the first free port, i.e. on the port 5, and 3 Player listen=
ing at 6500, 6501 and 6502 ports (ports that who uses the program may ign=
ore completely). When the execution terminates I simple tell the istance =
of GazeboCommander to close and all the process running for that specific=
 gazebo and gazebo itself at the port 5 (and not on the other eventually =
ports) will be closed.

My problem is that this beautiful classes makes use of the Player 1.6 -g =
option!!! With Player 2.0, as this option isn't there any more, to modify=
 my class in a suitable way, I would have to make the class write at run-=
time a config file for every opening Player and so at least 64000 files!!=
!
Why don't you reinsert in some way the old and dear -g option?

Of course I'd like to share this java class if useful...
 
Thanks

I hope you can help us.

F.Donnarumma, M.Esposito

University Federico II of Naples 
Italy