Just want to thank Jon, William, and others for the outstanding work on catkin_tools. It's a critical piece of what makes ros-install-osx tick, and we also use it extensively inside Clearpath, both as a developer build tool, and also as the foundation of our next generation ROS deployment infrastructure.

Mike

On 18 April 2016 at 21:29, Jonathan Bohren via ros-users <ros-users@lists.ros.org> wrote:

Today, the ROS Community Build Tool Team has released the second catkin_tools beta, Version 0.4.0!

Previously, a quick summary:

- `catkin_tools` is an improved toolchain for building catkin workspaces

- the CLI command is `catkin build`

- it builds packages in parallel with isolated build directories (no CMake crosstalk)

- it builds "pure" CMake packages that don't use Catkin macros

- it lets you build subsets of a workspace

- it needs to be tested more before being recommended over `catkin_make`

- the documentation for all the additional features can be found here: http://catkin-tools.readthedocs.org/

The top five reasons you'll want to try Beta 2:

1. The ability to reliably clean parts of your workspace without rebuilding everything!

2. A new warning and error display!

3. New ways to quickly move to and source a workspace!

4. A new asynchronous execution model for building and cleaning!

5. 26 crushed outstanding bugs!

Either install it with pip:

pip install catkin_tools --upgrade

or install via apt-get with:

apt-get update

apt-get install python-catkin-tools

To check the version of catkin_tools you're using, run:

catkin --version

If you've installed the second beta (0.4.0), you should see:

catkin_tools 0.4.0 (C) 2014-2016 Open Source Robotics Foundation

For those new to catkin_tools, see the migration guide:

Migrate from catkin_make!

Any issues, questions, or feature requests should be posted on GitHub:

Submit an issue!

Thanks!

-The ROS Community Build Tool Team

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