README.md

ViSP stack for ROS

vision_visp provides ViSP algorithms as ROS components. ViSP visp is the Visual Servoing Platform and ROS ros a robotics middleware.

These packages are released under the GPL-2 license.

Components documentation is hosted on the [ros.org wiki] vision_visp-wiki.

Support is provided through [ROS Answers] vision_visp-answers .

Which branch should I use?

Branches come in two flavors:

• development branch,
• release branch

Package for each ROS release is maintained on separate branches. I.e. kinetic-devel is the Kinetic Kade development branch whereas kinetic is the Kinetic Kame release branch.

master means the next ROS release.

If you are a user you should use a release branch as they contain stable and tested versions of the packages. If you are a developper you must provide new patches against master. You may also provide version-specific bug fix again older releases.

• Never implement new features in old branches (i.e. not master). These Pull Requests will not be accepted. If you provide a bug fix then you may ask for it to be backported. ABI/API breakage prevent patches from being backported.
• The only action allowed in release branches is merging the development branch in the current branch.

Warning: the Fuerte branches still rely on the legacy rosbuild build system. We recommend you to update to a newer ROS release. Only minimum maintained will be done for this release.

Additional development guidelines are provided in CONTRIBUTING.md.

Build Status

This stack supports the following ROS releases:

• Hydro
• Groovy
• Fuerte
• Indigo
• Jade
• Kinetic

The master branch holds the development that will be available in the next ROS release.

ROS Release	Development Branch	Release Branch
Master		N/A
Kinetic
Jade
Indigo
Hydro
Groovy
Fuerte