Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] [GSoC] Weekly update for PyBOMBS and CGRAN integration

[Ravi Sharan]

Apologies for the double mail. I had accidentally sent the previous
response, even before compiling the complete mail.

That said, I am working on finishing the gui part and integration with
the pybombs API by this weekend, before the mid-term evaluation
period.

[1] https://gitlab.com/NinjaComics/pybombs-qtgui

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 8:05 PM, Ravi Sharan
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> Thanks for the feedback.
>
> 1. I have created a new repo for the Pybombs frontend on Gitlab [1]
> recently. During my weekly interaction sessions with Martin, we have
> decided to make the gui-frontend installable from pybombs-cli itself.
> Initially, I had plans on integrating the gui-frontend with the
> pybombs, but GUI being a personal preference, it was decided to have
> it as a separate project.
>
> 2. I am using a table view as demo'ed in the screencast, which has a
> 'Status' column that indicates whether the package is already
> installed or not.
>
> 3. Currently, the pybombs' recipe manager uses a technique to handle
> the prefix specific recipes (if that's what you mean by private
> recipes). I am planning to include a Recipe manager dialog to the UI,
> which address this need.
>
> 4. The UI definitely displays the documentation and dependencies. I
> have included a 'Module Info' dialog which generate the dependencies
> based on the recipe. On the documentation front, I have still not
> decided whether to provide links to the module's CGRAN page or fetch
> the Manifest file from each project during runtime to display the
> information (handling screenshots/images in the dialog can be a
> problem in the second case).
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 11:07 PM, Ben Hilburn <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi Ravi -
>>
>> Thanks for the update! I really appreciate you going through the effort of
>> posting a screencast, as well.
>>
>> A few questions:
>>
>> Where is the repository that you are pushing your code to?
>> I think it would be useful if the UI indicated which packages were already
>> installed. You may be planning for this, already.
>> How will the UI handle private recipe lists?
>> Will the UI give any information regarding the dependencies of the packages?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ben
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 1:26 AM, Ravi Sharan
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I have written a small blog post [1] on my weekly progress for the
>>> PyBOMBS and CGRAN integration project which I am working on for GSoC.
>>> Also, I have recorded a small screencast [2] on the progress so far
>>> with the GUI. I will be happy to receive any feedback and suggestions
>>> on the GUI design. Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Ravi
>>>
>>> [1] - http://ninjacomics.github.io/radioblogr/2016/06/gsoc_week2_3.html
>>> [2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVN534cHtm4
>>>
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