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I playing alot with :::ROS and I realize this:
I can modify my Python app and start it again by doing:
$rosrun mypkg mypython.py
no need to go back to catkin workspace and do catkin_make
but if I do that (catkin_make) everything works too...
then what is the sense behind the catkin_make command
You can for sure run the code iwthout making it since that is python (a script language) BUT:
if you are using messages and services you will need a new autogenerated python code...
look the doc in the ros page
3rd parragraph
We use CMake as our build system and, yes, you have to use it even for Python nodes. This is to make sure that the autogenerated Python code for messages and services is created.
then what is the sense behind the catkin_make command
catkin_make drives your compiler.
Python is not a compiled language.
So as soon as you have run catkin_make once (to have it setup your PYTHONPATH and other things), you don't need to run it anymore for non-compiled languages (such as Python).
Asked: 2017-03-24 11:41:09 -0500
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Last updated: Mar 24 '17
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