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RethinkRobotics / baxter

Baxter Research Robot SDK
www.rethinkrobotics.com/sdk
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Packages rename #110

Closed davetcoleman closed 10 years ago

davetcoleman commented 11 years ago

First, I'm happy to see the changes that are going into the development branch, including removing the baxter parent folder and catkinizing everything!

While you guys are re-structuring the repository and switching to Groovy, I think it would also be a good time to rename the packages in the SDK that are Baxter-specific (I think all of them) but that don't have the "baxter_" prefix. The examples, tools, and utilities packages and sub-packages really should be baxter_examples, etc.

I realize the downside to this is that you'd have to tell the SDK users to change some of the commands they are used to and update the wiki, but I think its worth it so that in the future other ROS packages don't collide in the limited package namespace.

@tfoote you would recommend this, right?

rethink-kmaroney commented 11 years ago

HI Dave, I can tell you that this is in the works and is planned for the next release following http://www.ros.org/wiki/RecommendedRepositoryUsage. I'll be happy to share with you our proposed repository layout when it firms up here shortly in support of our next release.