[Rock-dev] [Orocos-users] Naming of generated ROS messages

[Ruben Smits]

Hi Sylvain,

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Sylvain Joyeux <sylvain.joyeux at dfki.de> wrote:
> In the ROS integration within oroGen, oroGen generates ROS messages for
> oroGen-registered types (you also have the option of reusing an existing
> ROS messages, but that's not the subject here).
>
> The issue is how to name this message: ROS has no notion of namespace.
> ROS messages are named package_name/MessageName and that's all.
> Moreover, the package_name "namespace" really has to be a single package
> (you can't generate messages in the blabla_msg from two different
> packages). oroGen has a notion of namespace ... So.
>
> The current scheme would be to transform the_namespace/of_a_type/Type into
>
>    typekit_name/TheNamespaceOfATypeType

I would go for this one for the single reason of it being compliant
with the ROS naming convention.

> the only sane alternative I personally see being
>
>    typekit_name/the_namespace_of_a_typeType
>
> Any preference (if you do care) ?

Ruben

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