Package Separation for Building and Running ROS Applications

[gavanderhoorn]

Keeping things connected:

Generating 'dev' and runtime artefacts from ROS packages

First: I’m not entirely sure this belongs here, but I couldn’t think of a better category. It’s probably something that will touch the buildfarm if we can come up with something, hence why I posted it here. I’ve been interested in reducing the size of deployments of ROS applications, both native and in Docker (and Singularity) images for some time now, and one thing that I have been curious about is whether it would be possible to generate separate runtime and -dev archives from ROS packages (…