On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 08:30 -0700, Ken Conley wrote:
> It looks like you're using joystick_msgs from SVN.  What URL are you using?
> 
> The stable releases of joystick_drivers are:
> 
> https://code.ros.org/svn/ros-pkg/stacks/joystick_drivers/tags/joystick_drivers-1.4.2/
> https://code.ros.org/svn/ros-pkg/stacks/joystick_drivers/tags/diamondback
> 
> Both of these appear to have the Joy msg.
> 
> The Joy msg was moved to sensor_msgs starting in the unstable release
> series for both common_msgs and joystick_drivers, which means that you
> must have unstable versions of both trees.  You can find these SVN
> URLs summarized on the 'Releases' page for the stacks:
> 
> http://www.ros.org/wiki/joystick_drivers/Releases
> http://www.ros.org/wiki/common_msgs/Releases
> 
> FYI: if you are not using the rosinstall tool, I recommend that you
> switch to it.  It handles all of this SVN URL logic for you:
> 
> http://www.ros.org/wiki/diamondback/Installation/Ubuntu/Source

This last one is exactly what I am using.

   Tõnu