Both work. The angle brackets are preferable because this is a "system" include file specified with the -I option to the compiler. From the gcc documentation: 2.1 Include Syntax Both user and system header files are included using the preprocessing directive `#include'. It has two variants: #include This variant is used for system header files. It searches for a file named file in a standard list of system directories. You can prepend directories to this list with the -I option (see Invocation). #include "file"This variant is used for header files of your own program. It searches for a file named file first in the directory containing the current file, then in the quote directories and then the same directories used for < file>. You can prepend directories to the list of quote directories with the -iquote option. On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Joel Cartwright wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a question about ROS C++ include convention: For header files > from another package, which include method is preferable? > > #include > > or > #include "geometry_msgs/Twist.h" > > Both compile correctly, and both are seen in the standard ROS stacks. > > Joel > -- > Research Assistant > Ocean Systems Laboratory > Heriot-Watt University, UK > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >