[Pkg-ace-devel] YARP built on ACE

[Anne van Rossum]

Dear ACE developers,

For your information, YARP is a communication infrastructure that uses ACE.
If you are interested in supporting it, please, feel free to contact me.
YARP stands for *Yet Another Robot Platform*. This description is quite
modest, there is no other robot platform that I know off. Its upstream
developers are very friendly and eager to apply patches. I hope it's not
rude to send this email. There are not a lot of roboticists who are also
DDs. :-)

I would like to make use of the opportunity to thank you for your software
and packaging efforts.

Kind regards,

Anne

PS: This is the email I sent to debian-mentors.


I am looking for a sponsor for my package "yarp".

* Package name    : yarp
  Version         : 2.3.0-1
  Upstream Author : Paul Fitzpatrick <paulfitz at alum.mit.edu>
* URL             : http://eris.liralab.it/yarp/

* License         : GNU LGPLv2.1 (unless otherwise stated)
  Section         : net

It builds these binary packages:
libyarp    - Library support for YARP network of ports and devices
libyarp-dev - Header files for YARP library

libyarp-dev0 - YARP network of devices
libyarp-init0 - YARP network initialisation
libyarp-os0 - YARP network of ports
libyarp-sig0 - YARP image processing interfaces
yarp-bin   - CLI to YARP network of ports and devices

yarp-doc   - Documentation for YARP library
yarp-view  - Graphical viewer for data on the YARP network

The package appears to be lintian clean. Upstream is eager to apply patches.

My motivation for maintaining this package is: YARP (Yet Another Robot
Platform) is unique

 in its kind. It provides a general interface to allow for TCP, UDP,
shared memory, and
 multicast communication. We intend to use it in Robot3D, a simulator
for modular robots,
 at https://launchpad.net/robot3d. Screenshots can be seen at
http://www.robotcognition.eu/

 Robot3D builds on Delta3D (http://www.delta3d.org, also in need for
sponsoring). Using
 YARP Robot3D can be a real competitor for Player/Stage with respect
to pluggability.


The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/y/yarp

- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable
main contrib non-free

- dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/y/yarp/yarp_2.3.0-1.dsc

I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.


Kind regards
 Anne van Rossum
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