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It does not need to.

catkin_make works perfectly fine. Dave Coleman wrote the current build instructions and he's a proponent of the catkin tools over catkin_make. It handles some things more "user-friendly" than catkin_make, among other things it automatically deals with pure-cmake projects inside the workspace (catkin_make_isolated is required for that). I suppose this is especially important for Dave as he often builds OMPL within the same workspace as far as I know.

Personally, I believe building up more software on top of cmake just moves us back in the direction of rosbuild and that's not were I want to go..

It does not need to.

catkin_make works perfectly fine. Dave Coleman wrote the current build instructions and he's a proponent of the catkin tools over catkin_make. It handles some things more "user-friendly" than catkin_make, among other things it automatically deals with pure-cmake projects inside the workspace (catkin_make_isolated is required for that). I suppose this is especially important for Dave as he often builds OMPL within the same workspace as far as I know.

Personally, I believe building up more software on top of cmake just moves us back in the direction of rosbuild and that's not were I want to go..go.. But I do see the "user-friendliness argument".