File naming convention "rosinstall" misleading?

No, there is no plan to do so. The existing solution using wstool works perfectly fine and changing all documentation referencing it is a significant effort.

Both tools can be used for the task and it is mostly a personal preference which one you choose.

The ROS 2 instructions all use vcstool just because they have been written after vcstool was created (which is already six years ago).

1 Like