Only released in EOL distros:
Package Summary
This package contains Player, from the Player Project (http://playerstage.sf.net). This package does not modify Player in any way; it simply provides a convenient way to download and compile the headers and libraries in a way that can be managed by the ROS dependency system.
- Author: Brian Gerkey, with contributions from many others. See web page for a full credits llist.
- License: LGPL
- External website: http://playerstage.sf.net
- Repository: ua-ros-pkg
- Source: svn https://ua-ros-pkg.googlecode.com/svn/stacks/erratic_robot/tags/erratic_robot-0.2.1
Package Summary
This package contains Player, from the Player Project (http://playerstage.sf.net). This package does not modify Player in any way; it simply provides a convenient way to download and compile the headers and libraries in a way that can be managed by the ROS dependency system.
- Author: Brian Gerkey, with contributions from many others. See web page for a full credits llist.
- License: LGPL
- External website: http://playerstage.sf.net
- Source: svn https://ua-ros-pkg.googlecode.com/svn/stacks/erratic_robot/trunk
Package Summary
This package contains Player, from the Player Project (http://playerstage.sf.net). This package does not modify Player in any way; it simply provides a convenient way to download and compile the headers and libraries in a way that can be managed by the ROS dependency system.
- Author: Brian Gerkey, with contributions from many others. See web page for a full credits llist.
- License: LGPL
- External website: http://playerstage.sf.net
- Source: git https://github.com/arebgun/erratic_robot.git (branch: fuerte)
Package Summary
This package contains Player, from the Player Project (http://playerstage.sf.net). This package does not modify Player in any way; it simply provides a convenient way to download and compile the headers and libraries in a way that can be managed by the ROS dependency system.
- Author: Brian Gerkey, with contributions from many others. See web page for a full credits llist.
- License: LGPL
- External website: http://playerstage.sf.net
- Source: git https://github.com/arebgun/erratic_robot.git (branch: master)
Package Summary
This package contains Player, from the Player Project (http://playerstage.sf.net). This package does not modify Player in any way; it simply provides a convenient way to download and compile the headers and libraries in a way that can be managed by the ROS dependency system.
- Author: Brian Gerkey, with contributions from many others. See web page for a full credits llist.
- License: LGPL
- External website: http://playerstage.sf.net
- Source: git https://github.com/arebgun/erratic_robot.git (branch: master)
Overview
Player is a networked robot device interface. We use it for its library of drivers (e.g., in amcl_player and wavefront_player).
We include it in 3rdparty because:
- We use almost the latest version from SVN, which is not yet available in OS package managers (older version are available). We need the latest version because it has numerous fixes to amcl and wavefront.
Two paths to minimizing the cost of building Player:
- Extract the driver code that we're using and put it in the ROS packages where needed. That is, don't build Player at all.
Only build those parts of Player that we actually use. Done: the build is now approx 25 seconds, including the initial download.
