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Added rdmanifest file to support installing V-REP by rosdep.

Open peci1 opened this issue 9 years ago • 3 comments

<run_depend>vrep</run_depend> should start working as soon as my pull request to rosdistro is accepted and distributed. It installs V-REP to /opt/vrep . If it finds an instance of V-REP in this directory, it doesn't do anything to it (not even update).

peci1 avatar Apr 27 '15 11:04 peci1

If you accept this and https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/pull/8189 is merged, you may consider adding the vrep dependency in package.xmls of your packages.

peci1 avatar Apr 27 '15 12:04 peci1

Thank you @peci1. When ros/rosdistro#8189 is merged we will consider this useful possibility.

Giovanni

jokla avatar Apr 27 '15 13:04 jokla

I am not sure this is a good idea. I should rephrase: it is a certainly useful to have the possibility to install vrep automatically, but I am not sure that we can implement this because of licensing considerations. V-REP is not free for non-academic users and so we cannot automatically download it if the user does not have the right to the free license. I am not an expert, but I think we should ask coppelia robotics before accepting this PR. What do you guys think?

ricsp avatar Oct 21 '15 14:10 ricsp