ROS packages not only for Ubuntu - OBS Build Service
Hi,
Is it planned by the ROS community to provide packages for mainstream Linux distributions, like Fedora and OpenSuSe?
To me it's completely understandable, that Ubuntu is a recommded choice. However, I find setting ROS up on a non-Ubuntu system is really hard (I didn't succeed on Fedora 18, neither on OpenSuSe 12.3). In fact, I ended up creating a Ubuntu 12.04 LTS installation only for ROS Fuerte, which is quite redundant in my case.
As I see, in the last two years more and more people left the Ubuntu community - for numerous reasons we all know (Unity, Mir, outdated packages, privacy issues etc.).
Fedora has opened a feature plan for ROS, which is at 0% completion. For OpenSuSe, there are packaging efforts made by Spencer Jackson.
What about the OpenSuSe Build Service?