On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Jack O'Quin <jack.oquin@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Jonathan Bohren
> <jonathan.bohren@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Dirk Thomas <dthomas@willowgarage.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Like the previous buildsystem catkin is aware of stacks and processes
> the
> >> stack.xml files.
> >>
> >> But in contrast to rosbuild catkin does not know anything about
> packages.
> >> It only uses CMake projects (which might correspond what has been
> packages
> >> before in a lot of cases - but does not have to).
> >
> >
> > So... in other words, at the moment, the notion of a "ros package" will
> > cease to exist in Groovy?
>
> I seriously doubt it.
>
> Dirk is saying the new catkin build system is unaware of the ROS
> package concept. But, ROS applications cannot be unaware of the
> package names they depend on.
>

It sounds like he's implying that the manifest.xml, and thus the ROS
package metadata will be optional, though.

-j