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Design documentation for ROS 2.0 effort
http://design.ros2.org/
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update mapping and information about deprecated types, add actions, minor tweaks #213

Closed dirk-thomas closed 5 years ago

dirk-thomas commented 5 years ago

Follow up of #190.

dirk-thomas commented 5 years ago

The goal of mapping ROS 1 char to IDL char was to have a way to express an unsigned character type in .msg. Looking back I don't think this change is worth doing. I reverted that part in eec42d6b3d0ed883d611beac043b2ccd8f373754 and char continues to be mapped to uint8 (as it was in ROS 1).

For the case that there is no character type in .msg: well, that has always been the case and I don't think we need to resolve this. In IDL that will be easy to express...