Jarvis Schultz

Not sure is this is applicable to the errors others are reporting, but I was having seemingly the same issue, and I tracked it down to the fact that the...

I'm using ROS Kinetic and `0.9.18-1xenial-20210503-175051-0800` version of `ros-kinetic-moveit`. On this version, I believe the `KinematicsPluginLoader` uses a plugin `initialize` method that reads the `robot_description` parameter. See [relevant source code](https://github.com/ros-planning/moveit/blob/c0bd62a4a4a5580490fdda276497005685e5caaa/moveit_ros/planning/kinematics_plugin_loader/src/kinematics_plugin_loader.cpp#L166-L179)....

FWIW, I'm not using the `master` branch. As you guessed, that won't compile. I'm using the `kinetic-support` tag. In my opinion, the custom loader is incorrect regardless of which version...

I was just trying to build this on Noetic, and ran into a few issues that I think I was able to sort out. See the [python3_noetic_conversion.jas branch on my...

Thanks for the quick response. I think perhaps users assume that xacro files will behave like launch files (a reasonable assumption), and I do agree that it would be a...

I have never spent any time into digging into this feature. In my particular example, it was pretty easy to work around by using macros with args instead of xacro...

To me it seems like you worked around this in exactly same way I described in [my comment above](https://github.com/ros/xacro/issues/204#issuecomment-650223859). Basically since you can't pass values for `` tags into included...

@rhaschke This is definitely correct and an important thing for people to understand. I agree that file-local properties could still be useful, and is very much along the lines of...