[ros-users] [Discourse.ros.org] [Next Generation ROS] Why do we have package.xml instead of package.yaml in ROS2?

Jack O'Quin ros.discourse at gmail.com
Wed Feb 14 19:36:00 UTC 2018



See the [rationale section in REP-0127](http://www.ros.org/reps/rep-0127.html#data-format). The gist is that package.xml gets parsed rather often and Python XML parsing was found to be an order of magnitude faster than YAML.





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