Hi Anton,

I have been rewriting drivers for Videre Stereo cameras (both regular and
> STOC types) to reuse existing code as much as possible, the old driver had a
> bunch of code that is already available in OpenCV or other ROS packages.
>

Glad to hear it. It would be great to have good Videre STOC support in ROS
again.

E.g. I am using debayring and rectification methods from image_proc and
> point cloud calculation routines calculatePoints and calculatePoints2 from
> stereo_image_proc.
>

That's sensible, just bear in mind that those are internal APIs likely to
change in the next major release. You can consider them stable for Boxturtle
& C-turtle though.

The problem is these latter methods are marked private, is there a chance we
> could make these public since they don't keep any state or depend on other
> state variables in the StereoProcessor class and thus can be reusable?
>

Sure. I've made them public in trunk, r30561, so that will go out in the
next patch releases.

Cheers,
Patrick