The following are the key points to bear in mind while creating and maintaining a package:
- Version control: ROS supports version control using Git, Mercurial, and Subversion. We can host our code in GitHub and Bitbucket. Most of the ROS packages are in GitHub.
- Packaging: Inside an ROS catkin package, there will be a package.xml, and this file should contain the author name, description, and license. The following is an example of a package.xml:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <package> <name>roscpp_tutorials</name> <version>0.6.1</version> <description> This package attempts to show the features of ROS step-by-step, including using messages, servers, parameters, etc. </description> <maintainer email="dthomas@osrfoundation.org">Dirk ...
