Release for Lunar

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bfl has appeared on the blocking list for lunar release: http:https://repositories.ros.org/status_page/blocked_releases_lunar.html?q=label%3D%22UNBLOCKED%22&s=6&r=1

The svn server dissapeared for Kinetic so we rereleased using the existing imported 0.7 version in this repo: 7b4f454

However now I see that there's a 0.8 release listed with a tarball: http:https://www.orocos.org/orocos/source-code-2 and a new github repo: https://github.com/toeklk/orocos-bayesian-filtering is linked from the home page. It's not clear where the best source would be for Lunar. The new git repo has a slightly different layout with the orocos-bfl package in a subdirectory.

@toeklk might you have a suggestion whether it's worth moving forward to 0.8 for ROS Lunar or just repackaging 0.7 for now?

@mikaelarguedas FYI Re Lunar progress

[toeklk]

Hi,

I'm not a ros user, so it's hard for me to judge the ros-suitability of a particular BFL version. Still,

• 0.8 has some bugfixes wrt 0.7, and improved compatibility for non-gnu compilers IIRC
• (from a quick diff) 0.8.99 (the version I recently imported to github) has more bugfixes, an updated README file and NIS value calculation for the Kalman Filter

Note that there are various 'forks' available (probably partly due to the fact that BFL has been moved far too late to github) such as

• http:https://wiki.ros.org/bfl_eigen with orig sources on https://github.com/tu-darmstadt-ros-pkg/hector_common/tree/master/bfl_eigen
• https://github.com/jeljaik/orocos-bfl-berdy/ also has support for eigen 3

The latter are based on the 0.8 release, hence they probably miss some of the bugfixes which are present in 0.8.99

Ideally, somebody would offer me a pull request for the eigen matrix library, such that I can integrate it and produce a 0.9.0 version...

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Thanks for the feedback I opened: orocos/orocos-bayesian-filtering#1 as a follow up but I'm not going to have time to follow up since this is not a core dependency.

@mikeferguson do you mind if I just release 0.7 forward w/o any changes?

[mikeferguson]

@tfoote AFAIK the only thing using BFL in ros is robot_pose_ekf -- which is really only useful on PR2, which is EOL. So yeah, let's just put the same 0.7 out (I don't want to patch robot_pose_ekf anyways).

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ros/rosdistro#14298