[ros-users] New Tool: roscompile - Catkin Metadata Helper

[G.A. vd. Hoorn - 3ME]

On 24/07/15 15:39, David Lu!! via ros-users wrote:
> I have a confession to make. I'm not very good at Catkin. One reason
> is because there is a lot more metadata to maintain. Unlike Ye Olde
> Rosbuild, where you could add a dependency by adding a single tag in
> the manifest, Catkin requires you add the build and run dependencies
> to the package.xml, as well as add the dependencies in the
> CMakeLists.txt in a couple places.
[..]
> Check it out here: https://github.com/DLu/roscompile
> (contains a full list of features and issues page)
[..]

David,

this seems like a nice tool. Any particular reason it is (currently) a 
rosbuild package (apart from you not being 'very good at Catkin' :))?


Gijs