On Thursday 18 November 2010 13:15:52 Konrad Banachowicz wrote:
> 2010/11/18 S Roderick <kiwi.net<http://kiwi.net>@mac.com<http://mac.com>>
> Git allows you to bypass this issue completely. Track KDL's master branch,
> use your own topic branch for your modifications to KDL, and then publish
> this branch so that the KDL maintainer's can pull it in. When your changes
> are integrated to KDL (some time in the future) then your next update of
> KDL will grab them, rebase your topic branch, and continue development.
> You get the benefit of always having _your_ latest and greatest, and
> everyone else gets the benefit of your contributions. Yes i understand the
> work-flow but i use ROS build system for my components which grab KDL from
> ROS distribution. I can create overlay for KDL in ROS but then everyone
> who want to build my stack need overlay too.

There is an orocos_kdl package in our orocos_kinematics_dynamics stack that 
tracks the trunk of kdl.

Ruben