he said that most of ROS 1 was engineered before any of today's well known frameworks were available , hence the lot of custom tools.
catkin is built on top of CMake, so that's no excuse.
catkin is built on top of CMake, so that's no excuse.
CMake has its drawbacks, fair enough, but 10 years ago it was pretty much already the de facto standard build system for C++. What would have used instead of CMake ?
- Make and autotools (Haha) ?
- scons ?
- completely custom build system ?
- something else ?
s/robot/software
Why even have the concept of a `workspace`? I don't think it solves any problem.
Most bigger software projects are built on-top of other software, but most deal with it without having to implement their own build system. I know that CMake is established software, but despite its own horrendous scripting language I find it mostly useful if you want to build cross-platform native software - if you're going to run on Linux anyway, I think there is no point for this indirection.
> - Make and autotools (Haha) ?
You might laugh about these tools, but they build most of your userspace if you're on Linux. And yes they even work on distributions other than Ubuntu.