RosJava Messages

History

Some history for the annals of time and also for future devs who are wondering about the boundaries defining the choice of message packages that form the conglomeration that is rosjava messages.

Several approaches were tried/tested, discarded until we have what is here.

Scan rosdistro to discover all possible message packages

Experimental packages often appear/disappear and this triggered too much manual intervention to maintain. There is also far too many packages that have code with it too. This is awkward for rosjava to depend on - I prefer message only packages and have encouraged upstream folk to shift their messages to message only packages in certain instances.

Used for hydro, but dropped for indigo

Minimal set of messages directly used by rosjava/android

Easiest to maintain, but not so useful for users - they have to then go off and generate many message packages themselves, even if only using some of the more common packages.

Used for indigo, but dropped shortly afterwards

Minimal set and finite set of stable, popular packages

Relatively easy to maintain and important for maven repo users since they will not want to go and directly build message packages themselves. If I get a request, I usually add to the list to support these users.

Used in indigo

Changelog

0.3.0 (2016-12-15)

• updates for Kinetic release.

0.2.2 (2015-04-22)

• add world_canvas_msgs

0.2.1 (2015-02-25)

• workaround for move_base_msgs (add roscpp as a msg package).
• dependencies for builds of rosjava/android core and android interactions added.
• restructured as a meta-message artifact generator of core messages only for indigo.
• Contributors: Daniel Stonier, Martin Pecka

0.1.52 (2013-12-26)

• message generation and indexing now more intelligent, checks message_generation deps, not xxx_msgs naming.
• scrapes for many more packages (too many to list) with the new indexing

0.1.40 (2013-11-11)

• tf2_geometry_msgs -> 0.4.9

0.1.39 (2013-11-11)

• velodyne_msgs -> 1.1.2
• yocs_msgs -> 0.5.2

0.1.38 (2013-11-01)

• constrain open ranged dependencies.

0.1.37 (2013-11-01)

• concert_msgs -> 0.6.4
• gateway_msgs -> 0.6.4
• rocon_app_manager_msgs -> 0.6.4
• rocon_msgs -> 0.6.4

0.1.36 (2013-10-31)

• remove unintended rocon_std_msgs

0.1.35 (2013-10-31)

• use ROS_MAVEN_REPOSITORY
• concert_msgs -> 0.6.3
• gateway_msgs -> 0.6.3
• rocon_app_manager_msgs -> 0.6.3
• rocon_msgs -> 0.6.3
• • humanoid_msgs -> 0.2.0
• • humanoid_nav_msgs -> 0.2.0
• • nao_msgs -> 0.2.2

0.1.32 (2013-10-25)

• use maven style open range dependencies

0.1.31 (2013-10-09)

• rosserial_msgs -> 0.5.4
• • wireless_msgs -> 0.0.1
• multimaster_fkie_msgs -> 0.3.7
• kingfisher_msgs -> 0.0.2
• yocs_msgs -> 0.5.1
• controller_manager_msgs -> 0.5.8
• gazebo_msgs -> 2.3.2
• hector_nav_msgs -> 0.3.1

0.1.22 (2013-10-09)

• • yocs_msgs -> 0.4.1
• • sr_ronex_messages -> 0.9.3
• rosgraph_msgs -> 1.9.50
• std_srvs -> 1.9.50
• geographic_msgs -> 0.3.1
• move_base_msgs -> 1.11.4
• moveit_msgs -> 0.5.2

0.1.15 (2013-09-23)

• use updated ros gradle plugins with maven-publish for publishing.

0.1.14 (2013-09-22)

• rosserial_msgs -> 0.5.3
• rosgraph_msgs -> 1.9.49
• std_srvs -> 1.9.49
• gazebo_msgs -> 2.3.2

0.1.11 (2013-09-18)

• run_depends on the build tools only

0.1.9 (2013-09-17)

• added ugly mixed msg/code map_store dependency for android_apps

0.1.8 (2013-09-17)

• gradle wrapper -> 1.7
• avoid crashes if the environment isn't exactly correct.

0.1.7 (2013-09-13)

• first release that has done a full scrape of rosdistro for 'official messages'.
• rosjava's test_ros messages bundled here as a sub-packages (somewhat dirtily).