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Show non ROS package #9

Closed 130s closed 5 years ago

130s commented 5 years ago

AFAIUC currently rqt_dep only shows ROS package (or catkin package to be more precise?). It'd be nice if it shows non ROS packages in addition.

I assume traversing packages is done by rospkg functionality, which uses information in package.xml where non-catkin package dependencies can be listed up. Since rospkg can return non-catkin? package names by e.g. RosPack.get_rosdeps, we should be able to add this functionality.

Note I don't think rospkg can find the dependency of non-catkin packages.

This doesn't have to be done in ROS ecosystem (although so far I haven't found other tools that visualize dependency tree well), but because implementation might not be that hard, I think it's worthwhile feature.

130s commented 5 years ago

Found a system deps button already implemented.