> Good suggestion.  As this is the behavior of rospack, I changed rospkg
> to match it by default.  You can get the raw export by adding a
> "convert=False" arg to the get_export() call instead.

great, thank you.

>> A minor cosmetic issue is the printing of "READ_CACHE manifest.xml" in
>> rospkg/rospack.py:188.
>> I guest this output will be removed in the next release?
>
> Yes, this has already been removed.  I pushed 0.2.3 with the fix as
> well as updated get_export() API.

It would be useful if the version number of rospkg could be determined.
This is not yet possible, right?
So could you also add a function which returns the version number of rospkg?

Thank you,
Dirk