Re: [gentoo-dev] New eclass: ros-catkin.eclass, new USE_EXPAND: ROS_MESSAGES, new categories: dev-ros and ros-meta for review.

[Alexis Ballier]

On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 18:36:06 +0200
Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> As part of an effort of bringing ros (http://www.ros.org/) to Gentoo,
> I've come up with the following design:
>
> ros-catkin.eclass that is a template, merging all common code for
> catkinized ros packages.
>
> ROS_MESSAGES will be a new USE_EXPANDed variable: ROS is message
> based, processes write and listen to some topic, and a topic is typed
> with a message. Messages are defined by simple text files but are then
> pre-processed for easy usage in C++, Python & co.
>
> Several packages are usually bundled in a single repository, with a
> meta-package pulling all the others. Hence, I came with two new
> categories: dev-ros for single packages, ros-meta for those
> meta-packages.
>
> Some numbers:
>  /bin/ls ros-meta | wc -l
> 52
>  /bin/ls dev-ros | wc -l
> 350
>
>
> I think maybe half of them are in a state that they can be added to
> gentoo-x86.
>
>
> ebuild example:
>
> $ cat roslib-1.12.2.ebuild
> # Copyright 1999-2014 Gentoo Foundation
> # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
> # $Header: $
>
> EAPI=5
>
> ROS_REPO_URI="https://github.com/ros/ros"
> KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm"
> PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{2_7,3_3,3_4} )
> ROS_SUBDIR=core/${PN}
>
> inherit ros-catkin
>
> DESCRIPTION="Base dependencies and support libraries for ROS"
> LICENSE="BSD"
> SLOT="0"
> IUSE=""
>
> RDEPEND="
>         dev-python/rospkg[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
>         dev-libs/boost:=[threads]
>         dev-ros/rospack
> "
> DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
>         test? ( dev-ros/rosmake ros-meta/ros )"
>
>
>
>
>
> Eclass inlined at the end.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Alexis.


Since there hasn't been comments in a few days, I'm proceeding with the
above plan. (with hasufel's eclass review taken into account of course)

Alexis.