- new ROS2 platform in PX4 intended for creating configs that build and run entirely in ROS2
- PX4_CONFIG defaults to px4_ros2_default if no config specified and in a colcon workspace with ROS_VERSION=2
- currently doesn't do much other than allow you to build px4 msgs interface package
- cmake NuttX build wrapper compile in place instead of copying source tree to build directory
- slightly faster skipping necessary copying (depending on system)
- allows debugging in place
- easier to work directly in NuttX following official documentation
- simplifies overall build which should make it easier to resolve any remaining NuttX dependency issues in the build system
- the downside is switching back and forth between different builds always require rebuilding NuttX, but I think this is worth the improved developer experience
- also no longer builds px4io and bootloader in every single build, for most users these rarely change and we're wasting a lot of build time
in workspace settings. This comes down to user preference
and there's no particular reason to change this based on the workspace.
I found it confusing to have this non-default behavior
just for PX4 editing.
- fix gazebo SITL debug
- now prompts you to select vehicle
- devcontainer.json container support https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers
- this allows you to jump straight into working within a container (px4-dev-nuttx) on a fresh machine
- also helps with Codespaces https://github.com/features/codespaces
- plugin updates
- cpp extension pack, spell checking, CTest support
- cleanup intellisense
- the backup tag parser was a resource hog and didn't work very well
- fix problemMatcher support so that you can click on a build failure
Daniel Agar
Christian Rauch
David Lechner
Vatsal Asitkumar Joshi
Matthias Grob