See discussion here:
https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/issues/7331
we were getting some uninitialised variables. While it only showed up in
AP_SbusOut, it means we can't be sure it won't happen on other objects,
so safest to remove the approach
Thanks to assistance from Lucas, Peter and Francisco
We should never include version.h or ap_version.h headers directly
on a header since this will trigger a complete rebuild of the
codebase when we commit to the repository. The ap_version.h header
is auto-generated containing information from the current commit.
If we include it in a header, every other file that ends up including
that header (directly or indirectly) will need to be rebuilt. No
ccache's cache beats having to do nothing when the header is just
not included.
version.h contains information that is kept on a struct inside
each vehicle. Rather than using the macros from each vehicle,
the getter should be preferred, which returns an AP_FWVersion
referente.
Having the version macro in the config.h and consequently in the main
vehicle header means that whenever the version changes we need to
compiler the whole vehicle again. This would not be so bad if we weren't
also appending the git hash in the version. In this case, whenever we
commit to the repository we would need to recompile everything.
Move to a separate header that is include only by its users. Then
instead of compiling everything we will compile just a few files.
Peter Barker
TsuyoshiKawamura
Ammarf
Andrew Tridgell
Randy Mackay
Lucas De Marchi
khancyr
Dr.-Ing. Amilcar Do Carmo Lucas
Pierre Kancir
Michael du Breuil
murata
Mathieu OTHACEHE
floaledm
Tom Pittenger