Add support for building ros/catkin based projects
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Current evaluation
ROS/catkin snap building was delivered via the Catkin plugin, including PR #175 (9045874fd), and shipped in Snapcraft 0.4; issue #28 was closed.
Resolution: closed resolved
Reason: ROS/catkin build support was implemented and merged in canonical/snapcraft#175 as commit 9045874fd. The functionality shipped in Snapcraft 0.4.
Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot
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Issue body
ROS + catkin projects should be easily buildable as a snap
Launchpad Details: [#LP1506201](https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1506201) Sergio Schvezov - 2015-10-14 17:19:58 -0300
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | ROS/catkin snap building was delivered via the Catkin plugin, including PR #175 (9045874fd), and shipped in Snapcraft 0.4; issue #28 was closed. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | ROS/catkin build support was delivered through merged Snapcraft Catkin plugin PRs, including PR #175; the linked request itself was closed without discussion. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Feature request for ROS/catkin build support was closed without resolution. No implementation or merge occurred, indicating the request was abandoned or deferred indefinitely. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed without implementation or discussion. The request for ROS/catkin build support was abandoned or superseded by later snapcraft developments, with no resolution or merge details recorded. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed without implementation. The request to add ROS/catkin build support for snaps was abandoned, receiving no comments or activity and remaining unresolved throughout its lifecycle. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Closed without implementation. The feature request for native ROS/catkin snap build support was abandoned due to prolonged inactivity and is likely superseded by later snapcraft enhancements. |
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Related work
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Likely Fixed By:
canonical/snapcraft#175
(confidence 95%)
Merged Catkin plugin build work that delivered the requested ROS/catkin support.
Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1506201 Add support for building ros/catkin based projects | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | ROS/catkin project support shipped in Snapcraft 0.4, implemented by commit 1dc909e3e with follow-up fixes in 22f43d1d7. | |
| #1664776 Catkin plugin: support building with an underlay | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Catkin underlay support landed in snapcore/snapcraft#1140 (cab0b3806); follow-up #1186 added a ROS content-sharing demo. | |
| #1629003 Catkin plugin: support kinetic | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | ROS Kinetic support was added to the Catkin plugin by snapcore/snapcraft PR #842, merged as commit 5d447aedc; the maintainer closed the issue pointing to that fix. | |
| #152 Catkin plugin: Add support for ROS tools. | snapcraft | merged | Merged #152 as fc5142126, adding ROS package installation, roslaunch/rosrun support, updated examples, and doubled Catkin test coverage. | |
| #175 Catkin plugin: Refactor build. | snapcraft | merged | Merged in snapcraft#175 via commit 9045874fd, refactoring Catkin environment, dependency handling, build logic, source-space support, and tests. | |
| #163 Catkin plugin: use rosdep for dependency resolution | snapcraft | merged | Merged in PR #163 (commit 87b2e24f6), replacing manual Catkin package.xml dependency parsing with rosdep; PR #183 backported the change to Snapcraft 1.x. | |
| #2525 catkin plugin: check stage-snaps for ROS dependencies | snapcraft | merged | Merged #2525 as d1c5f1b00, updating the catkin plugin to honor ROS dependencies supplied by stage-snaps and avoid redundant fetches. | |
| #331 Catkin plugin: Handle rosdep empty and multiple dependencies. | snapcraft | merged | PR #331 merged into snapcraft master as commit 1c1119ce3 (merge e3a2b9d03). It refactored the Catkin plugin's rosdep dependency resolution to handle empty output and multiple packages per line, fixing LP bugs #1548406 and #1548404. | |
| #1823788 Catkin plugin doesn't notice ROS dependencies satisfied by stage-snaps | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Catkin stage-snap dependency detection was implemented by merged snapcraft PR #2525 (commit d1c5f1b00), avoiding redundant ROS dependency fetches. | |
| #1392 catkin plugin: extract rosdep into new package | snapcraft | merged | Merged in canonical/snapcraft#1392 (99218f59d), extracting rosdep from Catkin into internal.pullers and resolving #1464. |