Colcon Spawn Shell

Introduction

This is a colcon plugin to chain workspaces in new shells. It allows quickly un-chaining workspaces by exiting the spawned shell.

The shell's prompt is edited to show the workspace order. The only supported shell is bash.

Quick Start

Optional: Create and source a virtual environment.

python3 -m venv env
. env/bin/activate

From Pip

1. Download colcon-spawn-shell from pip.

   pip install colcon-spawn-shell

2. Build the colcon workspace you would like to spawn in a new shell.

   cd my_cool_workspace
   colcon build

3. Source spawn_shell.bash to activate the workspace.

   . install/spawn_shell.bash

From Source

1. Download the source code for colcon-spawn-shell

   mkdir -b spawn_shell_ws/src
   cd spawn_shell_ws/src
   git clone https://github.com/colcon/colcon-spawn-shell.git

2. Build the workspace using colcon

   colcon build

3. Source the workspace

   . install/local_setup.bash

From now on future workspaces can be activated by sourcing spawn_shell.bash

cd my_cool_workspace
colcon build
. install/spawn_shell.bash

Contributing

1. Fork the colcon/colcon-spawn-shell repository.

2. Follow the "From Source" instructions, except clone your forked repository.

3. Make changes and commit them to a branch.

   # Creat a branch for your changes
   git checkout -b my-cool-changes
   # Make your changes ...
   git commit -m "committing my changes"
   # Push them to your fork
   git push --set-upstream origin my-cool-changes

4. Create a Pull Request from your branch to the branch develop on colcon/colcon-spawn-shell