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tesseract-robotics / tesseract_ext

This contains external dependencies for Tesseract
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Cannot Build Offline #43

Open DavidMerzJr opened 3 years ago

DavidMerzJr commented 3 years ago

This project cannot be built on a computer without internet access. In the event of an accidental 'catkin clean' on the workspace, an airgapped computer is sorely outta luck. This has caused issues on multiple projects over the last 3 years.

Why is CMake being used to clone the packages, as opposed to something that only requires a one-time download, such as git submodules?

DavidMerzJr commented 3 years ago

As per my discussion with @Levi-Armstrong, we should be able to use submodules and just point the 'external project' at the relative path to help resolve this issue. I'll look into this when I have some time.