William Woodall

> Sourcing another workspace in the same shell generally fails in some ugly manner. I think `catkin` does a pretty good job of managing the environment variables which it sets,...

@jbohren I think the shell script could work, it kind of sucks to implement and maintain, but I think it could be ok. > Complete off-topic: I'd love a shortcut...

> I believe to support ROS it would be sufficient to support only one underlay and one overlay with the provided toolset So, where does the problem come in? In...

Sounds like a good idea to me. I don't see any issues with the approach you described. I'm not picky about the file name or contents, so long as it...

I just mean that the build space is the obvious location, since it is unique to the build space being used. It wouldn't make sense, for example, to put it...

We would like to have it, but I don't know when it would be implemented.

I understand your frustration, I'm going to be spending time on this again soon. I'll also look into having more maintainers to avoid this issue in the future. Also congrats...

A few things to considered (which prevented us from using this in our ament tools when we were setting it up to support visual studio projects and msbuild) is that...

I think there is a need for it, e.g. plain cmake projects with no `install` target, skipping projects without a `test` target (for the `catkin test` verb), testing for the...

I would guess that they are listed as narrowly as possible to avoid inconsistencies when you add a package to the source space but you haven't rebuilt the workspace yet,...