Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How can we make GNU Radio better?

[Martin Braun]

On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 03:23:21PM -0400, Philip Balister wrote:
> Rather than flog the topic of what is wrong with GNU Radio, I'd
> prefer to emphasize that it is only as good as we make it. So how
> can we make it better. Here are some of my thoughts:
> 
> 1) Expand the pool of people contributing code.
> 
> 2) Improve the grc help files and parameter descriptions.
> 
> 3) Divide the code base in to true core functions, signal processing
> libraries, and applications.

3a) Remove inconsistencies which have popped up due to the organic
'growth' of GNU Radio over the last years.
 
> 4) Use cmake instead of autotools. (Not my first choice, but may
> help the windows people)

5) Improve the development interface. When you're developing stuff with
GNU Radio, you'll probably be using a lot of existing blocks and adding
a few of your own. This process is still quite clumsy in my opinion and
would be easier if
- there were better DSP debugging tools (e.g. nicer graphical sinks you
  can simply connect your blocks -- I'd say that anytime I need to pipe
  the output from a block into a file_sink and then analyse it with 
  Matlab, that's when the development interface is lacking),
- GRC could be tied into the development chain (e.g. inspect hier_blocks
  by double-clicking them, inspect output of individual sub-blocks)


MB

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