(even if you can with the current catkin by passing in custom folder for build/devel/install).
Anyway we are looking for ways to make catkin_make have a bit more sugar to make that tool easier and more convenient to use.
Then what if we support the following new but thin, tools for people who want to use catkin_make instead of full-on-catkin but don't like having to jump around their filesystem in the standard CMake workflow. Note I use the current catkin_make script in `catkin init` to illustrate what that should do. Also note that this preserves what are basically pass-through calls to cmake and make