March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
1396 pages
42h 14m
English
book
ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots
by Anil Mahtani, Luis Sanchez, Enrique Fernandez, Aaron Martinez, Lentin Joseph
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Metapackages
As we have shown earlier, metapackages are special packages with only one file inside; this file is package.xml. This package does not have other files, such as code, includes, and so on.
Metapackages are used to refer to others packages that are normally grouped following a feature-like functionality, for example, navigation stack, ros_tutorials, and so on.
You can convert your stacks and packages from ROS Fuerte to Kinetic and catkin using certain rules for migration. These rules can be found at http://wiki.ros.org/catkin/migrating_from_rosbuild.
In the following screenshot, you can see the content from the package.xml file in the ros_tutorials metapackage. You can see the <export> tag and the<run_depend> tag. These are necessary ...