Installation depedencies with rosdep

[knmcguire]

Currently we instruct users to install some of the dependencies themselves. We should try to get this to a rosdep only state.

Now we have

sudo apt install libboost-program-options-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev
pip3 install rowan nicegui

pip3 install cflib transforms3d
sudo apt-get install ros-DISTRO-tf-transformations

Currently, we already have boost and libusb in package.xml so that should work out of the box. Transform3d doesn't have to be installed alongside tf-transform anymore as that is now installed with pip packages.

Rowan is now currently added in the rosdep pip packages: ros/rosdistro#46855 (review)
Nicegui and cflib are relying on too many dependencies so we can't add that, so let's put it to false.

cffirmware_ is a bit tough... even if we make our own pip packages on it and release on on pypi... I wouldn't want to add it to rosdistro... How about new ros package called crazyflie_hsitl (hybrid software in the loop) ?

[whoenig]

What problem is the new ros package crazyflie_hsitl going to solve? Is it replacing crazyflie_sim?

[knmcguire]

it could potentially remove the step of people having to clone the crazyflie-firmware repo, build the bindings and sourcing the python package so it will be an easier installation.

It should be another package that crazyflie_sim will use, or it could be part of the Crazyflie_sim package.

[whoenig]

Wouldn't it make more sense to just release crazyflie-firmware on pip? It's not really a lot of work - we could even do that if bitcraze doesn't want to.

[knmcguire]

That would be potentially much easier. Let's just do that and add it to rosdep dependencies