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migrating to ros: duplicate package names

asked 2011-06-18 12:49:29 -0500

btown gravatar image

Hi all,

I'm trying to migrate our robotics team's existing software, which uses a custom qmake-based build system, to ROS, but I'm running into a problem where packages have the same name, but are in different stacks. For Instance, we have unrelated code in:

RobotA/Sensors/Vision
RobotB/Sensors/Vision

I've tried making RobotA and RobotB stacks, but then rospack find Vision only sees RobotB/Sensors/Vision. Is there a way to make the ROS build system and bash tools look inside a specific stack, or directory? I'd rather not have to redesign the entire repository. It makes sense that this would be possible... what if you wanted to integrate somebody else's stack, but they used a name that you also used?

Thanks!

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answered 2011-06-18 14:25:07 -0500

dornhege gravatar image

I'm not sure, if that achieves what you want, but you can adjust your ROS_PACKAGE_PATH. If you include either RobotA or RobotB, the ros tools will only find the vision package in that stack.

Using both at the same time under the same name is not possible.

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Thanks! I was afraid of that, but I'll just make a script that changes the package path.
btown gravatar image btown  ( 2011-06-18 14:54:39 -0500 )edit
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answered 2011-06-19 01:11:05 -0500

joq gravatar image

ROS stack and package names are global to the entire ROS universe.

It will be much less confusing and annoying to give all your stacks and packages unique names, like robot_a_vision and robot_b_vision (lower case names are preferred).

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