EricGallimore

4.2.x: Reading past the end of stream no longer raises ReadError

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In earlier versions, reading past the end of a `BitStream` raised a `ReadError`. Now, it seems that it raises a `ValueError`. Example: ``` File "/home/eric/ros_workspace/src/ros_acomms/ros_acomms/src/acomms_codecs/ros_packet_codec.py", line 147, in decode_payload id...

Use ament_python to build packages rather than ament_cmake

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**Public API Changes** None **Description** Change the build system for these packages from `ament_cmake` to `ament_python`. This is the suggested way to build Python packages for ROS2, and is needed...

Derive generated message classes from a base class

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In ROS1, all generated message classes derived from a common class: `genpy.message.Message`. This allows for a bunch of handy behavior, including the ability to use `isinstance(..., genpy.message.Message)` to check if...