Installing ROS on a machine with Orocos already installed

Hi, I have been using Orocos (Toolchain version 2.6.0) for my robot application.

Now, I'd like to use RVIZ to integrate a render in my application. What is the best way to install ROS groovy on a machine with Orocos installed as standalone?

Do I need to re-install Orocos as ROS stack?

cheers

Niccolo'

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Installing ROS on a machine with Orocos already installed

On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 3:37 PM, <niccolo [dot] tosi [..] ...> wrote:

> Hi,
> I have been using Orocos (Toolchain version 2.6.0) for my robot
> application.
>
> Now, I'd like to use RVIZ to integrate a render in my application. What is
> the best way to install ROS groovy on a machine with Orocos installed as
> standalone?
>
> Do I need to re-install Orocos as ROS stack?
>

Not necessarily AFAIK, it depends how you would like to integrate your
application with RVIZ.

BTW, why would you want to use an EOL ROS distribution? (
http://www.ros.org/news/2014/10/groovy-galapagos-eol-complete.html), I
would suggest to use indigo.

Ruben

>
> cheers
>
>
> Niccolo'
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Installing ROS on a machine with Orocos already installed

2015-03-03 8:59 GMT+01:00 Ruben Smits <ruben [dot] smits [..] ...>:

>
>
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 3:37 PM, <niccolo [dot] tosi [..] ...> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I have been using Orocos (Toolchain version 2.6.0) for my robot
>> application.
>>
>> Now, I'd like to use RVIZ to integrate a render in my application. What is
>> the best way to install ROS groovy on a machine with Orocos installed as
>> standalone?
>>
>> Do I need to re-install Orocos as ROS stack?
>>
>
> Not necessarily AFAIK, it depends how you would like to integrate your
> application with RVIZ.
>
> BTW, why would you want to use an EOL ROS distribution? (
> http://www.ros.org/news/2014/10/groovy-galapagos-eol-complete.html), I
> would suggest to use indigo.
>
> Ruben
>

As far as I know if you want perfect comibility you shall either :
_ use orocos 2.6 and ros electric
_ use orocos 2.7 (which never gone out...) and ros hydro or newer.

ros changed their build system from electric to hydro, so intermediate
version are quite difficult to put in a full working state. Of course if
you can, I higly suggest you go for hydro or indigo which introduce huge
improvment in build system speed and workspace management.

The choice to integrate Orocos into ros as a stack depend on how you want
to manage your build system and dependencies.

>
>
>>
>> cheers
>>
>>
>> Niccolo'
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