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Hi,
I would like to use the newest version of MoveIt! (0.5.x) which is only available in Hydro to control my robot. The ros-wrapper for my robot driver is in groovy, so my question is:
Is it possible to make the communication work between nodes from different distributions?
Thank you
There are cases where it may work, but in general, no. Message definitions can change slightly between distributions which makes it so nodes cannot communicate.
Yes, but I would strongly caution you against doing so. Only way to find out for sure is to try.
This particular instance is not going to work easily -- because an effort[] field was added to trajectory_mgs/JointTrajectory in an attempt to better unify grasping and manipulation. This means that the trajectories output from MoveIt in Hydro will not work properly in Groovy as the MD5 checksum has indeed changed. Also, much of the Pick/Place aspects of moveit_msgs has been updated to remove a dependency on manipulation_msgs, so those messages will have completed changed since Groovy as well.
From my experience:
In general crossing ROS distros is possible, as the framework itself should be patched identical across all active ROS distros. If all dependencies of the packages in question work (either as debs or compiled from source), changed message definitions might be the barricade (you will see warnings on message receive), as that can only be solved by taking over one message definition, updating every node.
Concerning MoveIt!'s alpha status its quite possible way more changed than what you would want to patch. Comparing the repository branches, maybe including big dependencies, might help before trying it out.
Asked: 2013-10-02 04:38:08 -0600
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Last updated: Oct 02 '13
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