hpp-fcl to coal migration

[v4hn]

hpp-fcl just finished its rebranding to coal with version 3.0.

Are there plans when and where to migrate to the new name/version?

[jorisv]

Hello,

Coal have a compatibility layer with hpp-fcl.
So you should be able to build Pinocchio with Coal without any modification (only building Coal with -DCOAL_BACKWARD_COMPATIBILITY_WITH_HPP_FCL=ON).

We are creating the coal package on conda-forge right now and we will soon provide a pinocchio conda-forge package built with coal.

I don't know when we will stop using the hpp-fcl compatibility layer in pinocchio.

[jcarpent]

@v4hn We will soon update the CMake files of Pinocchio to link directly to coal. I appreciate your understanding.