New Wind River for 2012?

[Citrus]

The license of our copy of Wind River workbench 2011 appears to have expired.
I do not know where our Wind River 2011 disk is. Will all teams get a new Wind River disk at Kickoff? Is there anything else I should know about reinstalling Wind River or re-validating the license? Thanks.

[theprgramerdude]

If Wind River is used again (which I bet it will be), they just include a disk in the KoP that is distributed. If WindRiver has already been installed on the computer, then all that’s done is updating the license on your current installation to the one that’s included on the disk, rather than reinstalling. Instructions for this are typically included in the KoP or on FIRST’s website; Last year, it was as simple as replacing one license file on the computer with the one included on the WindRiver KoP disk.

[Norfen]

Since our licenses expired already, do they expect us to wait until the new ones are distributed to continue using Wind River?

[theprgramerdude]

@Norfen

Since our licenses expired already, do they expect us to wait until the new ones are distributed to continue using Wind River?

Good question I don’t know that; it was actually a surprise to me as well that they would expire before Kickoff and prevent teams from practicing writing robot code in that short, somewhat important gap. In previous years, I thought that the license actually expired a few days after Kickoff, not at the end of the year.

There are other ways to be able to write and download code to the robot, one of which that has come to my attention is the ucpp project, but I’m not knowledgeable enough about these methods to talk much about them.

[byteit101]

@theprgramerdude

Good question I don’t know that; it was actually a surprise to me as well that they would expire before Kickoff and prevent teams from practicing writing robot code in that short, somewhat important gap. In previous years, I thought that the license actually expired a few days after Kickoff, not at the end of the year.

There are other ways to be able to write and download code to the robot, one of which that has come to my attention is the ucpp project, but I’m not knowledgeable enough about these methods to talk much about them.

yes, UC++ should work on windows, mac, and linux.
Install the scripts (& msys on windows) from GitHub - nikitakit/ucpp: [UNMAINTAINED] Universal FRC C++ Development Tools -- for Linux and more (read the readme)
For eclipse integration, add the plugin site http://ucpp.thecatattack.org/ to any eclipse instance, and install the plugins.

And if you have any issues, please report them.

[Norfen]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23030925/notlookinginpath.PNG

@byteit101

yes, UC++ should work on windows, mac, and linux.
Install the scripts (& msys on windows) from GitHub - nikitakit/ucpp: [UNMAINTAINED] Universal FRC C++ Development Tools -- for Linux and more (read the readme)
For eclipse integration, add the plugin site http://ucpp.thecatattack.org/ to any eclipse instance, and install the plugins.

And if you have any issues, please report them.

Wow, this looks pretty awesome. Running into an issue with running which on python2 though (I think it might be a msys issue, which returns a bad error message for anything it can’t find). Digging through to hopefully disable it or hardcode my path to python.

Another question, which stuff from WPIlib should I drop into the project folder? Or does UCPP handle that for me? I thought I saw some code relating to WPIlib…

EDIT: Well, I have solved the python problem and it seems like it has done ucpp setup properly, but when I try to use ucpp init, it says I’m missing all sorts of commands. It seems like it’s not looking through my path or something, because I can run each of those commands normally. I’ve attached a picture of the output ucpp init gives me.