Whats the story of Players creation?
The story of the Player/Stage project is at Dylan Shell’s Robotics Wiki. • What other information about the Player/Stage Project is available online? Some online sources in rough order of usefulness: • The ‘official’ documentation page at Sourceforge • Mailing list archives. Many questions have been answered here. • P/S Wiki at the Autonomy Lab • Player notes on Dylan Shell’s Robotics Wiki at the Interaction Lab • Installation instructions for P/S/G on Fedora C2 • Guia basica de Player/Stage (Spanish installation and usage guide for P/S) • Installation instructions for P/S 1.6.x on Mac OS X 10.4.x (Tiger) • [Please submit links for this FAQ] • What is a “local” or “user” installation? Some developers (myself included) prefer to install applications in our user directory (e.g., /home/[username]/local) rather than in a system directory; this avoids screwing up other users of the machine if you have some funky experimental code you want to work with. It’s also useful if you don’t have roo