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I've been using ROS for a while but have only recently wondered - is it possible to automate the process of generating/filling in the depencies in package.xml and CMakeLists.txt files? From what I understand, this is a manual process, with ros2 pkg providing some help with flags like --build-type or dependencies.

Would be nice if there was a way to scan the files in src to check new changes to the files to determine if there are missing dependencies and automatically determine the build type. Just wondering if something like this exists, cheers!

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I don't think a feature like this exists. The point of the package.xml and CMakeLists.txt is to have control over your code.

Once all the manual setup is done, you can run rosdep to install all the dependencies for that package, which is the nice automation part.

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  • $\begingroup$ Interesting, thanks! $\endgroup$
    – samuel
    Commented Apr 8 at 4:03

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