procedure to get catkin_make install generate and copy only pyc and no .py
Hi. I need to ship to some client ans application based on ROS. I don't want to provide my source code to this client. So I'm planning to ship a tar.gz of the /install folder of catkin_ws or a .deb.
One starting question: does a .pyc file dependent on my system settings? or will my client have the capability to execute my node since he uses the same version of ubuntu and ros?
Supposing it makes sense to ship a .pyc and not a .py file:
The package packing process will take as input the /install folder. The files that end-up in /install are set in the CMakeList.txt So if I want to ship on .pyc files, I should specify them explicitly in the install section of CmakeList
But
If I checkout my svn repo in a clean environment, run catkin_make, I get an error since no pyc files have been generated yet and my Camkefile is inconsistent.
This works fine if in Cmakefile I specify to install my_file.py but this is not what I want...
So is there a way to force catkin_make to build all the python in .pyc?
Otherwise I need to run this twice with a change in Cmakelist in between... I have lots of proprietary packages to ship, and this is just not OK.
Thanks for any insights
Damien
Hi Damein,
Are you able to run your rospy node with this process? I am trying to do the same process for both C++ and python packages. However, it takes a lot of efforts to run a ros from install directory. Let me know if you have some simple way of doing this?
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