Rosinstall

These are the dev notes for fuerte.

Installation

Downloads

• User Modules : there is no 64 bit pyyaml, so use 32 bit python for everything.
• python : use version 2.7.
• python-win32 : latest version usually works (v216+).
• pyyaml : download for python 2.7
• pysvn : no exact sync for silksvn 1.7.2, but close works.
• mercurial : python module for mercurial.
• Dev Modules
• setuptools : easy_install program.

Setup

• Create the PYTHONHOME environment variable (typically set to C:\Python27).
• Add %PYTHONHOME% and %PYTHONHOME%/Scripts to your PATH variable.

The PYTHONHOME variable might actually no longer be necessary (needs testing).

Building

The build will pull in a tagged version of vcstools and rosinstall (project site). It simply copies them into this package and bundles them as packages along with win_rosinstall (I'd do it all via easy_install/pip but vcstools and rosinstall are too volatile and don't get tested, so bundling tagged versions here is easier).

> roscd win_rosinstall
> make all
> make distro

This will result in an executable installer in the /dist directory.

Issues

• Svn Certificates : ticketed here

Graveyard

Tickets - Electric

• [Problems installing git tags]](https://kforge.ros.org/vcstools/trac/ticket/1)