Planned migration of abb_driver to its own repository

[gavanderhoorn]

As a consequence of the consensus reached in ros-industrial/ros_industrial_issues#49, I've extracted abb_driver out of this repository and have created a new repository that hosts just the driver. You may find the candidate at ros-industrial/abb_driver.

NOTE: this is not the final version. Things may still change.

I've tried to retain as much of the commit history as possible (and where it made sense), and will transfer any open issues as well.

Commits and file provenance have been retained, and references to issues and PRs have been updated wherever possible. Only the kinetic-devel branch will be created -- others can still be found here, in ros-industrial/abb. Of course all commits are part of the new repository, we'll just not recreate all the labels.

To give current users sufficient time to update their remotes and/or not disturb running processes, abb_driver will be removed from ros-industrial/abb in two weeks (ie: on 2020-04-19).

Further tasks to complete the migration:

• announce the planned migration on ROS Discourse (Migration of abb_driver to a separate repository)
• create a new release repository (ros-industrial-release/abb_driver-release)
• update rosdistro entries for abb_driver devel and doc jobs (kinetic: abb_driver now hosted in separate repository ros/rosdistro#24535 and melodic: abb_driver now hosted in separate repository ros/rosdistro#24536)
• release abb_driver again into Kinetic and Melodic
  • Kinetic: kinetic: migrate abb_driver to new repository ros/rosdistro#25544
  • Melodic: melodic: migrate abb_driver to new repository ros/rosdistro#25545
• [ ] create a .rosinstall file (which includes ros-industrial/abb and ros-industrial/abb_driver) to facilitate source builds
• [ ] update the Travis configuration here to include ros-industrial/abb_driver
• update the readme in this repository (readme: document abb_driver migration #181)
• remove abb_driver from this repository (Remove abb_driver. #180)

[gavanderhoorn]

Not going to create a .rosinstall file, as it should not be needed: as soon as abb_driver has been released again, rosdep should be able to resolve it and it should be installed automatically.

As abb_driver is not needed for a from-source build of ros-industrial/abb (it's only an exec_depend), this would seem to remove the need to facilitate source builds with a .rosinstall file.

With the same rationale, we're not going to update the Travis configuration (as that's essentially a from-source build but then as part of CI).

[gavanderhoorn]

abb_driver has been removed (#180), readme updated (#181).

Only thing remaining is to release it again from the new repository.

Until that time, abb_driver will be built from the already released source tarball, so nothing will break, even without releasing it from the new location.

We'll keep this issue open until abb_driver has been released from it's new location.

[gavanderhoorn]

abb_driver released into Kinetic and Melodic (see OP for links to rosdistro PRs).

I'll close this once those PRs have been merged.

[gavanderhoorn]

Both PRs have been merged.

Pending an issue with the buildfarm (this one), abb_driver will be built from its new location and be available similar to how it was available when it was still part of ros-industrial/abb.

As this completes the migration, I'm closing this issue.