Re: [Playerstage-developers] Upcoming Player 2.1-rc1

[Mike V. W. <van...@cm...>]

Toby,

   I've been working on a USB driver for the Segway RMP (generation II, with 
the USB port).  It's almost done; I just need to squeeze in a couple days of 
testing early next week.  I think this would be great to add to the 2.1 release 
if you can wait for it; it will let users control their RMPs using only the 
supplied USB cable and the driver downloaded from the FTDI website, without 
having to purchase a CANbus interface.  I'll need a little help with the 
modifications to the acinclude.m4 file, though, so that it does the right thing 
depending on whether someone wants to use a CAN interface or the USB interface.

   None of my additions change any of the Player interfaces.

Thanks,

   Mike Vande Weghe
   Senior Research Engineer
   Carnegie Mellon University

> Hi all,
> Sometime next week I would like to release player 2.1-rc1. I would expect
> there will be a couple of extra RC versions following this depending on the
> issues found with it and the final 2.1 release will be about a month later.
> In order to keep the RC process as clean as possible and encourage early
> uptake it would be best if there are no API changes once the first RC comes
> out. This means that if anyone has any interface, driver or client API
> changes they are pondering and they think would be good to have in 2.1 then
> these should be added to CVS or proposed on this list ASAP...
> 
> Things that I am aware of out there:
> - Any changes needed to support Stage 3.0 or gazebo 0.8
> - Dynamic map updates
> - Vector map changes (these should be in by Wednesday for those that are
> interested)
> 
> Obviously if there is a really good reason for late changes they will still
> be considered.
> 
> Toby