The next ROS 2 Rust Meeting will be 2025-09-08T14:00:00Z
The meeting room will be at https://meet.google.com/rxr-pvcv-hmu
In the unlikely event that the room needs to change, we will update this thread with the new info!
Thank you all for joining! This was a fun meeting. Here are the notes I took, please let me know if I missed anything or if something needs clarification!
Attendees
- Sam Privett
- Esteve Fernandez
- Nathan Wiebe Neufeldt
- Mathieu David
- Kimberly Mcquire
- Scott Logan
Notes
- Released rclrs 0.5!
- Small issue with updating bindings on CI, not blocking
- Esteve will be giving a talk on ros2_rust at ROSCon UK 2025 in one week
- Promising PR for a proc macro to generate structured parameters
- Discussion on vendoring messages. Are we at a point where we should just bundle all messages directly in ros2_rust?
- Talked about uploading these vendored messages to crates.io behind shim crates
- Going to try doing this for a smaller message and uploading to crates.io
- Discussion on gaps in cargo registries
- No way to “fallback” to registries
- No way to have some local registries without an index, which has a lot of baggage (checksums, caching, etc)
- Philosophical discussion on using cargo to ship ROS itself
- Retort on why cargo and not something like pip? This adds complexity and removes the dev further from their source tools
- Even using it just to distribute is “easy” to get binaries on the system to run, but did you create an environment to develop software against is a harder problem
- Axon is using Rust, experimenting with ros2_rust. Interested to sponsor some ros2_rust work