[Buildroot] candidate packages : ros2 and wxwidgets

[Romain Naour]

Hello,

Le 05/01/2022 à 14:29, Thomas Petazzoni a écrit :
> Hello Thierry,
> 
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 10:46:46 +0100
> Thierry Bultel <thierry.bultel at linatsea.fr> wrote:
> 
>> For a number of companies, I can see a growing interest in having ros2 
>> support in buildroot.
>> Currently, people wanting to prototype (or make a product) a robotics 
>> applications, are stuck
>> to either yocto, or, worse, to a desktop-like distribution.

We also have some companies interested by ROS2 but they are using meta-ros Yocto
layer.

>>
>> Another topic is charts displaying for sailing. The most famous 
>> application (mostly used
>> on raspberry by sailors) is OpenCpn, which is great but relies on wxWidgets.
>>
>> Whereas I am looking for a sponsor for adding ros2 to buildroot, 
>> (because it is a quite significant work,
>> that implies to add a new build framework), I am thinking about using my 
>> (little) free time for wxWidgets (and OpenCpn later).
>> There has been an attempt is the past 
>> (https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=261) but it does not
>> seem to have lead to anything else since that time.
>>
>> What are your thought about these both packages ? Any ideas, or links to 
>> some WIP stuff ?
> 
> These packages would certainly be very welcome. ROS2 especially makes a
> lot of sense.
> 
> Some prior work:
> 
>   https://github.com/mchalain/br_ros
>   http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2019-March/246497.html

This is for ROS (v1), this series must be reworked for ROS2.

Marc had no time for cleaning and upstreaming this series :-/

> 
> I'll be happy to help in the review of such packages.

Same here, I'll try to help.

Best regards,
Romain

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Thomas
>