"Building a Visual Robot Model with URDF from Scratch" doesn't work on Foxy

[christophebedard]

https://docs.ros.org/en/foxy/Tutorials/URDF/Building-a-Visual-Robot-Model-with-URDF-from-Scratch.html

See https://answers.ros.org/question/390892/how-to-upgrade-launch_ros/

The urdf_tutorial repo/package has a launch file that uses ParameterValue from launch_ros: https://github.com/ros/urdf_tutorial/blob/09a5289c6cd7a6222a5538bcf77a09a73e251f76/launch/display.launch.py#L23.

However, it doesn't exist in Foxy (well, it exists, but as a type). See ros2/launch_ros#137

Since the urdf_tutorial repo only has a ros2 branch, a new foxy branch might need to be created to get a fix for Foxy (unless a temporary universal fix is applied to the ros2 branch until Foxy is EOL or something).

cc @DLu

[christophebedard]

However, it doesn't exist in Foxy (well, it exists, but as a type). See ros2/launch_ros#137

This was just backported to Foxy in ros2/launch_ros#265, so this issue should be fixed whenever the next Foxy patch is released.

[DLu]

Can we close this as of the last sync?