Mike, I suggest you take a look at the ROS tutorials. They talk about how to setup and use your ROS environment etc. http://www.ros.org/wiki/ROS/Tutorials Tully On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Ken Conley wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Mike Purvis > wrote: > > Firstly, when I'm setting out to build a new node, it seems it needs to > have > > a package. Does it need to have a stack too? Or can I just roscreate-pkg, > > and then put my python scripts in the src directory? > > A package is sufficient. > > > Secondly, I tried to create my new package outside of $ROS_ROOT--- in a > > directory that's a peer to ros and ros-tutorials. However, when I do > this, > > none of the rosbash tools can find it. Do I need to put my stuff inside > of > > $ROS_ROOT, or do I need to add to PATH and PYTHONPATH. If so, should I be > > doing this by editing the ros setup.sh, or by creating my own? > > You need to update your ROS_PACKAGE_PATH. The python path is > automatically taken care of if you setup your tags correctly > in your packages' manifest.xml (and call > roslib.load_manifest('mypackage')) > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > -- Tully Foote Systems Engineer Willow Garage, Inc. tfoote@willowgarage.com (650) 475-2827