Galactic/Rolling release

[fpasch]

Would you be able to provide a release for ROS2 galactic and rolling? It's already building and running successfully with a local build. So it would only be the release that is missing.
Thanks :-)

[clalancette]

So I have the permissions and ability to do releases here.

Unfortunately, the big blocker here is the release of sophus and the ecl set of libraries, which these libraries depend on. I don't have permissions there, so we can't release right now. Maybe we can convince @stonier to release sophus and ecl libraries, though.

[fpasch]

Sounds good.

I already added a comment in stonier/ecl_core#112

[stonier]

Maybe we can convince @stonier to release sophus and ecl libraries, though.

Convinced. I'll update when done.

[clalancette]

Convinced. I'll update when done.

Thanks Daniel!

[wn1980]

I have installed this ros2 kobuki driver on Galactic by building from source. Please adjust this script for your system.

[stonier]

Forgot to update.

• galactic - ecl and sophus debs are available
• rolling and humble - some minor problems blocking releases, coming soon

[ljaniec]

Please write if there is any help needed, I am interested in these packages released

[igrak34]

I'm also looking forward to humble releases.

[ljaniec]

@stonier
Hello, are these problems

stonier/ecl_core#113

the ones that block the release on Humble?

[dcconner]

I created some forks that did the minimum fixes to build and work on Humble, mostly by disabling some of the tests. I have the following source building and running on a Turtlebot 2 under ROS Humble.

• git: {local-name: src/kobuki_ros_interfaces, uri: 'https://github.com/kobuki-base/kobuki_ros_interfaces.git', version: devel }
• git: {local-name: src/sophus, uri: 'https://github.com/stonier/sophus.git', version: release/1.2.x }
• git: {local-name: src/ecl_tools, uri: 'https://github.com/stonier/ecl_tools.git', version: devel }
• git: {local-name: src/ecl_lite, uri: 'https://github.com/CNURobotics/ecl_lite.git', version: humble-test }
• git: {local-name: src/ecl_core.git, uri: 'https://github.com/CNURobotics/ecl_core.git', version: humble-test }
• git: {local-name: src/kobuki_ros, uri: 'https://github.com/CNURobotics/kobuki_ros.git', version: humble-test }
• git: {local-name: src/kobuki_core, uri: 'https://github.com/kobuki-base/kobuki_core.git', version: devel }

I don't claim the fixes are "correct", just that they got me up and running

[wn1980]

@dcconner I tested your code. It turns out that it can be built on amd64 but fails on arm64. Have you attempted to compile on arm64, such as the Jetson Nano board?

[dcconner]

@wn1980 I only did the minimum in those forks to allow me to compile on Intel i7 and i5 systems with Ubuntu 22.04 and ROS Humble. So while deserving of a "side eye" from @ljaniec , I shared in hopes of accelerating testing and progress for those waiting on correct updates. I don't plan on issuing any pull requests because those changes just hiding some build issues, not fixing them.

[ljaniec]

@dcconner My intention was not "side eye" with any derogatory meaning, sorry if that may have been your understanding. That was not what I was thinking, rather I was "looking into it" with interest. I couldn't find any reasonable documentation on ecl packages, especially the failed concept checks, so I'm no help for now either.

[ljaniec]

It looks like @stonier made some recent updates to the ecl libraries, it is worth a shot to check everything again