Is the rosdep tutorial of "Managing Dependencies with rosdep" applicable to Windows system?

[songyuc]

Hello,

I have been learning the ROS2 Iron tutorial in the documentation. And I remembered that rosdep didn't support Windows system. I wonder if the rosdep tutorial of "Managing Dependencies with rosdep" is applicable to Windows system?

I know that in the past, rosdep did not support Windows, but I also saw some discussions and work in progress to add support for Windows in future ROS2 versions. I want to confirm what the current situation is. Is there any update or plan to support Windows?

If there is any suggestion or resource that can help me use rosdep on Windows, I would appreciate it very much.

Thank you!

[clalancette]

Unfortunately, no, rosdep does not work on Windows right now. That's why our tutorials always have you install the dependencies by hand.

There are a bunch of open bugs about this:

• 'rosdep update' raises exception when run on Windows ros-infrastructure/rosdep#610
• rosdep install won't work on windows ros-infrastructure/rosdep#645
• [ROS2] rosdep usage on Windows ros-infrastructure/rosdep#733
• [Windows] add Chocolatey installer for Windows. ros-infrastructure/rosdep#662
• Add Conda (formerly: RoboStack) installer ros-infrastructure/rosdep#810

To get back to documentation; would it help if we put a disclaimer on the top of http://docs.ros.org/en/rolling/Tutorials/Intermediate/Rosdep.html saying that it does not work on Windows?

[songyuc]

Yes, I hope a disclaimer could be added on the top of Managing Dependencies with rosdep, and especially for Iron, which I am learning about.

[clalancette]

See #3911, which adds a disclaimer.