D client for ROS

[thinwybk]

On Sunday, 17 December 2017 at 14:16:14 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
> On Wednesday, 22 November 2017 at 22:16:12 UTC, thinwybk wrote:
>
> Andrei thought it could be a good GSoC project.
> It may take a bit of effort to define the project such that the 
> D community at large can benefit from it. I'm thinking about 
> possible additions to dub/other tool to support a more complex 
> build setup like ROS is using; but perhaps it is not needed 
> with D's more advanced capabilities in comparison to C++.

Could be already too late for GSoC project w.r.t. timeline 
https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline I guess. 
However despite of the GSoC project a D client library could be 
very valuable to the D community.

> Shall we schedule a time for an online chat/discussion (slack, 
> gitter, ...) to see how to proceed?  (and discuss tech things 
> like ROS1 or ROS2, step-plan and minimum requirements, ...)
>
> cheers,
>   Johan

For everyone interested in the technological stuff refer to a 
short summary in this repository: 
https://github.com/fkromer/ros2-d-client-library

Cheers,
Florian