On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Steven Bellens
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steven.bellens@mech.kuleuven.be> wrote:
> with the orocos_toolchain recently released for ROS electric, we'd
> like to generate a meta package for it as well. The stack is currently
> split up in 5 different stacks, and we want users to be able to
> install them all with one package. How do we generate such a meta
> package and release it?
>
> Do we just create an additional stack, with no code in it, depending
> on all 5 stacks? Or is there another way?
You can do that or else define a REP 108 "variant":
http://www.ros.org/reps/rep-0108.html
There are sometimes good reasons to retain an empty meta-stack:
* It can serve as a documentation node to collect data on the whole
set of stacks and packages.
* In cases where an existing stack was divided into smaller ones, the
meta-stack provides a consistent interface on which other stacks can
depend.
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joq