PointCloudLibrary / PointCloudLibrary/pcl

Deprecated davidSDK or update its documentation & add to CI

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Description

The company behind davidSDK was acquired by HP some years ago. The documentation of PCL still references the old webpage. With some redirects you will see this page. As you can see most downloads are old and the related library seems really inactive (last commit is nearly two years old).

So we have two options:

  1. Include the SDK in our CI and update documentation
  2. Drop support

In general, I think it's better to remove the support because it won't be developed much more and in case someone still needs it, the person can realize the connection in their own project.

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reviewing the PCL davidSDK documentation linked in the issue and locating the existing davidSDK support and CI configuration. Resolve whether the SDK should be added to CI or support should be removed, then update the documentation and verify the chosen path in CI.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
ci-cd, computer-vision, documentation
Issue type
Refactor
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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