Re: [Buildroot] candidate packages : ros2 and wxwidgets

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>]

Hello Thierry,

On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 10:46:46 +0100
Thierry Bultel <thierry.bultel@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.
> 
> 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

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

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
https://bootlin.com
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