New Repository hosting robots configuration files

[pattacini]

Hi @robotology/all-robotology-developers

Please, take note of this important announcement.

Following up discussion in robotology/icub-main#360, we have made available a new repository in our ecosystem hosting robots configuration files. You'll find it here: robots-configuration.

As a result, since robotology/icub-main@fb8f5a0, the repository icub-main does no longer provide those files.

Therefore, we warmly recommend you to update your system.

Official Instructions

• In our wiki: how to compile code on PC104.
• In the main page of the new repo.

Quick Way

If you have everything already installed (icub-contrib-common included) and don't want to start from scratch, a quick solution would foresee to:

$ cd $ICUB_DIR
$ git checkout master
$ rm -rf build/share/iCub/robots
$ git pull --rebase
$ ccmake ../

And then:

$ git clone https://github.com/robotology/robots-configuration.git
$ cd robots-configuration
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ ccmake ../
$ make install

Should you have robots configuration files in ~/.local/share/yarp/robots/$YARP_ROBOT_NAME, don't worry, they are still operative.

Closing remarks

• This major overhaul allows us to apply new workflow policies also to icub-main, which has now master and devel branches.
• A backup copy of icub-main with robots is available here: robotology-playground/icub-main-robots-backup.

[pattacini]

Quick note for @valegagge @randaz81 @ale-git, who seem to be the authors of the following branches in icub-main:

Please, remember to rebase those branches on top of devel in order not to reinstate robots related stuff we've just got shot of 😉

[pattacini]

Hi @randaz81

Just a couple of words regarding your branches multiple_calib_matrix and xml_include.

They don't seem to be mergeable and even rebasable on devel since they contain commits to files in the old by now app/robots directory.

Therefore, I would suggest you to rethink those branches leaving the code in icub-main while moving those commits to robots-configuration.