isolate / release controller_stopper

[v4hn]

The controller_stopper package is useful standalone, also if no UR arms are involved.

shadow-robot, possibly among others use the package with their own ros_control-powered hardware and we actually forked this repository just to get this small helper node without pulling in UR.
It would be great if you could either (1) split the package into a small separate repository or (2) release it into ROS noetic, so we don't have to compile it ourselves.

[fmauch]

Indeed that it was the plan initially to make it also available for others, hence the standalone package. Back then I didn't anticipate that getting a binary release would take such a long time. I'd still like to push that forward rather than investing time splitting this single package, but I definitively understand your concerns.

However, please note that we are currently very busy making the first ROS2 binary release and after that, some focus will definitively go into updating ros-industrial/universal_robot and therefore moving towards a binary release for this repo.

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[v4hn]

I'm not at all happy with the solution to move it even further into ur_robot_driver instead of splitting it up, but apparently someone vetoed the package name...
Where is the link to that discussion by the way? I can't seem to find it in rosdistro.

I'll close this as "No Fix" for now.

[gavanderhoorn]

ros/rosdistro#35593 (comment)