Russ Tedrake

Just stumbled on this, which might be relevant for the "license on deepnote / colab (if that ever comes back)": https://support.gurobi.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409582394769-Google-Colab-Installation-and-Licensing

what do you guys think about packaging director as precompiled vs vtk5 as precompiled?

I will let @rdeits confirm, but I think this came in when students in 6.832 were turned off by the incredible build time.

I've been calling drake's installed install_prereqs transitively from the underactuated / manipulation install_prereqs for a long time. Am I to understand that everyone agrees this is simple to do here,...

As I was most of the way through reading your third paragraph, I was indeed thinking "those sound like Drake bugs". :-)

Yes, still relevant. No urgency. I've added support for this in my own repos, and @jamiesnape and I thought we should propagate it back upstream, in the spirit of not...

@hongkai-dai -- i agree we can do it with linear constraints already. yes, the request is to do it as a bounding box. Partly because this can be better for...

FTR -- My now extremely small patch to enable `bazel build //tools/install/libdrake:libdrake.so //bindings/pydrake` and install on apple silicon is [here](https://github.com/RussTedrake/drake/pull/new/apple_silicon2).

The cmake entry point is still the official entry point for running the install scripts that supports setting all of our documented options.

Update: As of #17196, my apple_silicon2 branch patch is no longer needed. 🎉