Thank you for your feedback on this topic.

Based on your replies we have decided to let the "publish()" function print a warning when being invoked without the keyword "queue_size".

The warning message itself will point to the wiki page about rospy publishers for more information.

As any warning printed via Pythons warnings module it can be disabled with an environment variable.

Since deprecation warnings are not printed by default we used a UserWarning instead.

These changes will be done for "Indigo".

For future ROS distros we can revisit the decision if we should keep the Indigo behavior or change the warning into an error or change the default behavior.

Thank you,

- Dirk

On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 1:43 AM, Thibault Kruse <kruset@in.tum.de> wrote:

On 06.03.2014 09:32, Daniel Stonier wrote:

So back to my earlier question - is setting a queue size expensive in the python implementation? If there isn't a technical weakness there, then I'm all for a) warnings and a migration point sometime in the future - it wouldn't be very costly to mechanically search and destroy all rospy.Publisher instances in a ros workspace.

I agree. I would say a warning here should include a deprecation warning. Even if actual removal of the old API cannot yet be scheduled for j-turtle or k-turtle, deprecation seems to be the way to go.

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