update the repository to reflect the current state

dirk-thomas commented 10 years ago

The state of this repository has diverged significantly from what is actually being used / has been released latest. Currently it is not clear where future patches should be applied and how they could be released:

ROS Indigo uses the package available from Ubuntu repositories: 0.2.5-2 (http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libconsole-bridge-dev)
ROS Hydro uses a version number far behind (0.2.4-1 http://www.ros.org/debbuild/hydro.html?q=console_bridge) since any newer release broke building packages which depend on console_bridge

To match user expectation I think the repo needs some clean up:

remove the indigo-devel branch since that is not the console_bridge version being used by ROS Indigo
update master to reflect what could be the next version being released:
- it should contain the content which future versions of console bridge could be tagged from
- if the master is not compatible with the Ubuntu package (breaking API / ABI) I think it should be made clear by bumping the version number accordingly
- if the master is not compatible with ROS Hydro anymore I think a hydro-devel branch should be created from the version being used in Hydro (plus optionally any non-breaking patches which should go into a potential patch release into Hydro)

(The general rules apply that no version number should ever be reused or be available from different branches containing different code.)

scpeters commented 8 years ago

So if we delete the indigo-devel branch, can we close this issue?

dirk-thomas commented 8 years ago

Since Hydro has been EOLed since the ticket was created we could not care about those. But wouldn't it be easy to create a hydro-devel branch to make it easy if people do want to build it?

scpeters commented 8 years ago

Ok, so we could:

rebase indigo-devel onto the 0.2.5 tag
create hydro-devel from 0.2.4 tag

Is that it?

dirk-thomas commented 8 years ago

Yes, that should be good as far as I can tell.

scpeters commented 8 years ago

Ok, I created hydro-devel and rebased indigo-devel accordingly.

https://github.com/ros/console_bridge/branches

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