ROS for OSX

SIG Coordinator:

Topics: ROS as a debugging tool on OSX, ROS as a development environment on OSX, package management, maintenance of ROS stacks related to OSX, OSX specific improvements

Members:

• William Woodall <wjwwood@gmail.com>

• Michael Carroll <carroll.michael@gmail.com>

• Mac Mason <mac@cs.duke.edu>

• Dave Coleman <davetcoleman@gmail.com>

• Ken Conley

Mailing list:

• http://groups.google.com/group/ros-sig-osx

Old Mailing list:

• discussion archives.

Proposed new features

Current problems/solutions:

• Improve community visibility and cooperation
• Collect and squash ROS Electric bugs
• Test more versions of OS X and Xcode
• Finish Fuerte installation instructions

Proposed Improvements:

• Improve auto-generation of Homebrew formulae and Pip requirement files
• Integrate into the automated build system
• Provide binaries in an automated fashion and deliver them via Homebrew

Deadlines

Primary feature freeze (2012-08-15)

• TBD

Final feature freeze (2012-09-15)

• TBD

Release date (2012-10-15)

• TBD