Marc Hanheide

I think this is a worth-while effort. In fact, @jailander was working on something similar I believe in our own branch https://github.com/LCAS/gazetool, though he hasn't committed anything there yet. I...

let's tag @lschilli so he sees this 😀

if by any means possible I'd like to remove the QT requirement from the library. This is because we run this in a headless distributed system.

the benefit for you @lschilli will be that we automatically build Ubuntu packages for this.

that said, I suggest to _not_ catkinise the core library and also leave it ROS-free. Rather we suggest to have an independent ROS wrapper that _uses_ the library. So proposed...

and generally... good plan? any anticipated issues?

If the license permits, I'd suggest to just include the source code of that lib directly in a `3rd_party` subdir.

I personally hate it when a build script download unsolicited software (where I don't know if anyone has "injected" potentially malicious code released under the same URL). I'd rather have...

@Iranaphor where are we with this?

I have mainly assigned this to @ibrahimhroob, to consolidate all the tools we have (and document them).