osrf / gazebo_tutorials

Tutorials for gazebo
http://gazebosim.org/tutorials
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Add a noticeable "requirements" section for each tutorial #65

Open osrf-migration opened 8 years ago

osrf-migration commented 8 years ago

Original report (archived issue) by Louise Poubel (Bitbucket: chapulina, GitHub: chapulina).


It's very common that someone starts going through a tutorial and only half-way they realize they have the wrong Gazebo / OS / ROS version. Lots of wasted hours and frustration which could be saved with some big obvious warning upfront.

Right now, each tutorial has a small version box on the top right, which is often missed by users:

version.png

It would be nice to list things like:

A bonus would be to filter tutorials according to requirements. For example, "I use Gazebo 4 on Mac, show me all the tutorials which I can do".