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Can packages and stacks share the same name? Will having a stack called foo and a package called foo cause problems?
My use case is that I have a stack called foo which contains package foo and package bar.
The local ROS tools are behaving, but I am not sure if this subtly breaks something.
This is not a recommended practice. You can have a unary stack where a package is also a stack. Most of the tools are robust to it, however there are several edge cases which this will break. Most obvious is roscd, as well as indexing and documentation will be broken as packages and stacks share a namespace. Getting REP 109 to work was hard. The package and stack are obviously at different scopes, they should be able to be named differently.
Asked: 2011-08-02 05:59:58 -0500
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Last updated: Aug 02 '11
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