.. _rst:

Welcome to the |project| Manual! (for version |version|)
========================================================

The Robotics Systems Types Repository (|project|) contains type
specifications for robotics and cognitive systems and associated
conversion code for different :term:`data type` s and programming
languages.

The following programming languages are currently supported
explicitly:

* C++
* Python

  .. warning::

     Only major version 2 of Python (i.e. not Python 3) is currently
     supported. This limitation is due to the face that the protocol
     buffer compiler currently only supports Python 2.x.
* Java

Data types are specified using a `Interface Definition Language
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_description_language>`_. Currently,
the `Google Protocol Buffers <https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto>`_
IDL syntax is used almost exclusively.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   preparation
   tutorial
   data-types
   converters

.. toctree::
   :hidden:

   glossary

Indices and tables
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`glossary`
* :ref:`search`