Bug#782210: ITP: orocos-rtt -- Orocos Real-Time Toolkit
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda" <leo@alaxarxa.net>
* Package name : orocos-rtt
Version : 2.8.0
Upstream Author : Orocos Developers <orocos-dev@lists.mech.kuleuven.be>
* URL : http://www.orocos.org/
* License : GPL + runtime exception
Programming Lang: C++
Description : Orocos Real-Time Toolkit
The Orocos Real-Time Toolkit (RTT) is not an application
in itself, but it provides the infrastructure and the
functionalities to build robotics applications in C++. The
emphasis is on real-time, online interactive and
component based applications.
- why is this package useful/relevant?
It's an important package in the robotics world. It's a
useful framework to build robotics components.
- is it a dependency for another package?
Another packages in the orocos toolbox. You cannot have the
complete orocos toolbox if you don't have it.
- do you use it?
Yes, we use it at the lab where I work.
- if there are other packages providing similar functionality, how does it compare?
ROS is another framework, and it's also in the todo list.
- how do you plan to maintain it? inside a packaging team?
Inside debian-science team. I have done a preliminary work in:
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-science/packages/orocos/rtt.git/
- are you looking for co-maintainers? do you need a sponsor?
Yes, both. Any help will be welcome. It's a complex package.
Reply to: