Unable to build from source after 'eloquent message variable name refactor'

[jazzalin]

Hello,

I ran into some issues recently while building kobuki from source after the message variables have been refactored in commit:

test_ws/src/kobuki/kobuki_keyop/src/keyop_core.cpp:274:28: error: ‘const KeyboardInput {aka const struct kobuki_msgs::KeyboardInput_<std::allocator<void> >}’ has no member named ‘pressed_key’; did you mean ‘pressedKey’? processKeyboardInput(key.pressed_key); ^~~~~~~~~~~ pressedKey test_ws/src/kobuki/kobuki_keyop/src/keyop_core.cpp:293:38: error: ‘KEYCODE_LEFT’ is not a member of ‘kobuki_msgs::KeyboardInput {aka kobuki_msgs::KeyboardInput_<std::allocator<void> >}’ case kobuki_msgs::KeyboardInput::KEYCODE_LEFT:

Reverting to f2d83ce467ff52c6c20fefaf0a54d3464e3a212e fixed the issue!

I don't know if this expected given the port over to ROS2 and the legacy status of kobuki_msgs

[stonier]

I am guessing you are building on a ROS1 distribution?

All the sources should still be valid, repos unchanged, just make sure you don't use devel branches. There are no promises attached to the devel branch (naturally, otherwise where would you engage in development!?). Use the release branches instead - e.g. kobuki/melodic. Each repository has similar branches and will automatically aggregate release bugfixes for free.

Otherwise, pick a tag, e.g. 0.7.6. At least with these, they come with a promise that it should work.

[stonier]

Note, in the near future this repo too (like kobuki_core and kobuki_msgs) will lose the devel branch and default to melodic with a better README clarifying the situation and pointing to the ros2 repos. You just happen to have caught us in the middle of these changes.

[jazzalin]

That makes sense. Thanks for the clarification!

Feel free to close this as this isn't really an issue