[ros-users] resolving open REP-0122 issues

[Jack O'Quin]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Jonathan Bohren
<jonathan.bohren at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Dirk Thomas <dthomas at willowgarage.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Like the previous buildsystem catkin is aware of stacks and processes the
>> stack.xml files.
>>
>> But in contrast to rosbuild catkin does not know anything about packages.
>> It only uses CMake projects (which might correspond what has been packages
>> before in a lot of cases - but does not have to).
>
>
> So... in other words, at the moment, the notion of a "ros package" will
> cease to exist in Groovy?

I seriously doubt it.

Dirk is saying the new catkin build system is unaware of the ROS
package concept. But, ROS applications cannot be unaware of the
package names they depend on.

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 joq