orogen_loaders

Intro

I've spent some time the last week(s) cleaning up the orogen_loaders branch and making sure that all test suites pass fine.

• there are a bunch of merge requests on github that will need to be reviewed
• more importantly, I have pushed / updated the orogen_loaders branches

If you have not followed, I am writing a list of blog posts to introduce the changes that orogen_loaders contain. The index to the series is here. I update it to link to the new posts as I post them.

http://menfin.tumblr.com/post/89854262291/neat-things-are-coming-to-syskit

Anyways, if you are interested to try it out, you will need to add these overrides: https://gist.github.com/doudou/e2c839eafda087cdc818

Among the structural changes and the unit testing, there is also some optimizations in loading and instanciation times (quite dramatic in some cases).

Given that I am doing that on my spare time (of which I have little), don't expect a by-the-minute hand-holding from me. You are warned.

Backward-incompatible changes

• type names need to be well-formed, i.e. need to be full paths (starting with /), no spaces, including the types in containers (i.e. std/vector need to be written /std/vector). No C++ type names are allowed.