Any plans to add this repo to ros distros?

[vinaykumarhegde]

@dheera Listing this repo on rosdistro may be helpful if someone wants to install apt install ros-<distro>-rosshow instead of building this from source. I can help set this up if you find it useful.

[dheera]

Hi @vinaykumarhs2020 -- great to see you here. Ah yes this was on my list of things to do and never got around to it. What needs to be done to get that set up?

Also, do you know by any chance the "correct" way to set a single repo for distribution for both ROS and ROS2? There was some interest in integrating it with the ros2cli (ros2/ros2cli#309) and I would like to support this as well. I will look into this also. Debating between two branches, two directories, or a single package that works in both 1 and 2 if it is at all technically possible.

[vinaykumarhegde]

Here are the instructions for setting up the package for release for the first time. Any future updates could be just an update in rosdistro's distribution.yaml files.

Releasing with ros2cli is a great idea! I am not aware of any recommended ways, but I have seen some packages use different branches for ros versions/releases.

[dheera]

Thanks! Yep, I was in touch with @SteveMacenski and his recommendation was also to split ROS2 into a separate branch. I'll restructure the repo for that, then work on distribution for ROS1, and then work on the ROS2 version.