Add option to rosidl_generate_interfaces to skip dependency export. #708
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When a dependency is declared in rosidl_generate_interfaces(), ament_export_dependencies() for that dependency is automatically called. That is the correct default behavior, but it isn't always the behavior that is wanted. In particular, if a package has messages that are only used for tests, we don't want to export those dependencies downstream. Add an option to skip dependency export for rosidl_generate_interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette clalancette@openrobotics.org
This came out of ros-tooling/libstatistics_collector#54 , and
libstatistics_collector
will be the first user of it.