Re: [ros-dev] packet manager

[Alex Ionescu]

Maarten Bosma wrote:

>   Hi,
>
>  Me and some guys on the forum were thinking, about coding a packet 
>  manager for ROS. 
I guess you mean a Package Manager :)

>   (http://reactos.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=164) But we
> would need some 
>  kind of script language. We were also thinking about using XML instead 
>  of a real lang., but a real one like python would offer much more 
>  flexibility. 
Why do you "need" a scripting language? It can be done in C, and the 
meta-data can be stored in XML and read with XML libs, some of which are 
open-source. An XML lib is something we will probably integrate into the 
tree at one point anyways.

>  
>  So my question is if you think about the packet manager idea 
I like it, I think it should be a new tab in Add/Remove programs.

>   and if you would agree to a lib like python to the
> tree. 
I think it's pretty much out of the question to have phyton code in the 
tree, or anything else but C/C++ (even C++ is barely tolerated by some 
devs).

>  
>  Maarten Bosma
>      alias Dr. Fred 

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu