Ouster-sdk version

[ovaag]

Hi 👋

Current master for both ros1 and ros2 is currently using v0.10.0 of ouster-sdk.

I tried building latest master with ouster-sdk 0.12.0 and the build fails. Latest master with ouster-sdk 0.11.1 succeeds, and seem to work on my robot.

Are the newer versions of ouster-sdk adding any value to this ros driver and if so are there plans to bump ouster-sdk in current master?

[Samahu]

Hi @ovaag, thanks for your question. For the past two releases we were mostly focused on the python sdk so there is little incentive to update the SDK however I intend to bump the SDK version to 0.11 soon and later 0.12 or 0.13. The reason for not going straight to 0.12 is that it had a fair amount of breaking changes some of which is incompatible with the ouster-ros code, mainly the Point Cloud Customization code. This would require a bit of effort to adjust to the driver to it. But going to 0.11 should be feasible and going to make that upgrade soon.