FRC 2022 - Enhancement - Add "deploy" directory to robot project templates

[JimASim]

This is an enhancement suggestion.

Add a "Deploy" auto populating directory to the template robot projects.

Update the robot build specification to copy files in this directory to the roboRIO (or PC for simulated robots) default data directory.

Add a separate build specification that only copies the files.

This would allow easier deployment of data files, such as trajectories/paths, ini files, etc, to the robot.

I have a sample project from 2021 that has this.

Thanks

Jim

[Greg_McKaskle2 · Accepted solution]

This is exactly what is done by the team I mentor.

Specifically, we have an auto-populating folder in the project for paths and we have a destination in the build spec for where the paths are copied to.

We have a separate build spec that refers to the folder as well, when we only need to deploy paths. It is not that hard to setup, but is hard enough that the students never attempted it.

I hope that path generation tools become more common and think that this would make a good addition to the templates.