Conflict between colcon and setuptools_scm causing stderr messages

[brennand]

There is an annoying aspect of using ROS with curobo when using the setuptools_scm pip package to check for version information: https://github.com/NVlabs/curobo/blob/main/src/curobo/__init__.py

When building with colcon, the following print statement always appears:

--- stderr: isaac_ros_apriltag_interfaces
ERROR setuptools_scm._file_finders.git listing git files failed - pretending there aren't any
---

This error occurs because it clashes with setuptools. I'm not sure what the best solution would be. Maybe the curobo package could check for setuptools_scm and issue a warning if it can't import it?

[HowardWhile]

I’ve encountered the same issue on my side as well.

Here is the related environment information:

• Isaac ROS: v3.2.0
• Isaac ROS cuMotion: v3.2.0
• cuRobo: v0.7.5

Currently, the workaround is to run pip uninstall setuptools-scm to avoid the problem.