ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

The workspace

In general terms, the workspace is a folder which contains packages, those packages contain our source files and the environment or workspace provides us with a way to compile those packages. It is useful when you want to compile various packages at the same time and it is a good way of centralizing all of our developments.

A typical workspace is shown in the following screenshot. Each folder is a different space with a different role:

• The source space: In the source space (the src folder), you put your packages, projects, clone packages, and so on. One of the most important files in this space isCMakeLists.txt. The src folder ...