Commit 12872fd7d573e1 disabled ability to pass directories to list verb

[jarvisschultz]

System Info

• Operating System: 4.15.0-65-generic #74~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 18 09:51:44 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
• Python Version: Python 2.7.12
• Version of catkin_tools: catkin_tools 0.4.5
• ROS Distro: kinetic

Build / Run Issue

• Works with catkin_make
• Works with catkin_make_isolated --merge
• Works with catkin build
• Works with catkin build -p1
• I did not read this

Expected Behavior

Numerous examples in the documentation reference the ability to get a list of packages in a directory (e.g. catkin list -u path/to/directory). For example, the cheat sheet has several examples, and so does the header for the list verb. This functionality was dropped in this commit that added the ability to run catkin list --this. This seems like quite useful functionality. Why was it dropped? If we wanted to add it back should we look to a PR, a custom verb, something else?

[mikepurvis]

@jarvisschultz Did you ever do any work on updating the sphinx docs per #572 (comment)?

[jarvisschultz]

Finally found a few minutes to deal with this. See PR #604