Requesting support for ROS2 Iron

[RichardvdK]

The driver fails to install in the latest ROS2 Iron distro. Is there a possibility to get an Iron release?

Error message: E: Unable to locate package ros-iron-novatel-novatel_oem7_msgs

Describe the solution you'd like:

• A ROS2 Iron release

[mbharatheesha]

I can confirm that the driver version on humble branch builds on Iron. There's just one small change needed to specify the QoS settings which would otherwise cause a deprecation warning during compilation. After making the QoS profile changes, I can confirm that the code compiles without any warnings.

Other than that change, I tested the compiled code on Iron with a receiver, using the default launch files in this repo as well as some custom launch files and custom receiver init commands I needed for our project. It all works as expected.

@novatel-applications-engineering Do I target the changes to master branch or ros2-dev branch? Or will there be a iron branch soon?

[novatel-applications-engineering]

Hi @RichardvdK and @mbharatheesha there are no plans to release the iron branch as of now. @mbharatheesha please target the changes to the humble branch, which is our latest release. Kindly ignore the humble-dev branch.