Robotics Systems Commons

Version 0.5 of the RSC library has been released. The most important changes in this release are:

• Extension of the TaskExecutor interface to allow delayed scheduling (This caused an incompatible API change)
• CheckLSBTypes macro to extract Ubuntu-specific information using CMake
• Improved CPack support
• Compatibility fixes for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

A new maintenance branch of RSC with version 0.4 is available in the SVN. For stable development please depend on this branch.

A new release of rsc with version number 0.3.0 has been prepared and is available in the files section and as a tag in the repository. This version is mainly a maintenance release and a stable basis for the release of Robotics Service Bus.

The support for static and dynamic code analysis tools in the CMake utility library of RSC has been improved. RSC now provides CMake modules that integrated these tools for code analysis:

• cppcheck - static code analysis for common errors in C++
• SLOCCount - lines of code counting
• gcov - Code coverage reporting on GCC-based platforms. HTML report is based on lcov and XML reporting on gcovr.

All CMake modules provide outputs that are compatible with the Jenkins continuous integration server. The XML report for the coverage report can be parsed by Jenkin's Cobertura plugin and dedicated plugins for cppcheck and SLOCCount exist.

StaticMatrix was removed from RSC. It is not worth for this library to maintain own basic math structures. Instead, Eigen2 is recommended as a basis for matrix operations.

We're glad to announce the first release of the Robotics Systems Commons library (RSC) with version 0.1.

The source code is available via SVN (source:/branches/0.1/rsc) at https://code.cor-lab.org/svn/rsc/branches/0.1/rsc/ or as a tar.gz archive in the files section.