Introducing Strongback, a Java library for FRC robots

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by randallh

This only refers to software developed prior to Kickoff; it doesn't place any constraints on software developer after Kickoff. If something akin to this rule does appear in the 2016 game rules, then teams could use any past or future version of Strongback, since its source is and will remain freely available on GitHub (including all the files necessary to build the JAR files).

My concern wasn't for other teams being allowed to use the code you developed, it was for your team being allowed to use the code you developed.

Originally Posted by virtuald

The rules only state that the software has to be available in a public space before kickoff. Given that it is developed in a public repository, any commit could technically be considered a 'release'.

If they were developing this in a private repository, then yes, a release a day earlier would be required.

I'm probably belaboring the point too much, but just because there is a public repository doesn't mean that each change is merged into the public repository.

[bussell]

We have tried to get Strongback working in eclipse on multiple Windows machines with the same failure. When we get to the point where we import Strongback.userlibraries there is a path error. It appears that there is a slash missing. I have not been able to identify where the path is set.

Here is the relevant error:
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.ClasspathEntry$Asser tionFailedException: Path for IClasspathEntry must be absolute: C:Usersjoe_bstrongback/java/lib/strongback.jar

My username is joe_b on this machine, you will note the missing '/' before 'strongback'.

We were able to get things working with ease on a Mac, but most of our team's machines are Windows.

[randallh]

Originally Posted by bussell

My username is joe_b on this machine, you will note the missing '/' before 'strongback'.

What are the contents of the "strongback.properties" file that is located in the Strongback installation directory?

UPDATE: Actually, let's continue this discussion on the issue you created. Thanks!

[randallh]

We've just released Strongback 1.1.1, and this should fix the aforementioned problem on Windows. Please see the Getting Started chapter of the "Using Strongback" online book for details about installing or upgrading Strongback.

This is the latest version of the 1.1.x series, which is supports the latest version of the WPILib for Java that was released on January 7th. It is not compatible with earlier versions of WPILib.

[bussell]

Thank you for jumping on this minutes after my post!!!