Re: Releases v3.8.4.0 and v3.9.3.0

[Marcus D. Leech]

On 2021-10-01 7:34 a.m., Franco VENTURI wrote:
> If you are running GNU Radio >= 3.9, there's also the native SDRplay module I 
> wrote a big ago (https://github.com/fventuri/gr-sdrplay3) - you can find the 
> announcement to this mailing list here: 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnuradio/2020-08/msg00001.html
>
> Unfortunately it won't build on GNU Radio 3.8 because of SWIG.
>
> Since it interfaces to the native SDRplay API (version 3.X), it doesn't require 
> SoapySDR or gr-osmocom; I haven't done any comparison with the other approaches 
> of interfacing with the SDRplay RSP devices (SoapySDR and gr-osmocom), but if 
> someone does, I would be really interested in hearing their results.
>
> Franco
My personal preference when writing applications is to make them 
hardware-agnostic whenever possible, which is why I and am sure lots of 
others
  prefer the gr-osmosdr or gr-soapysdr approach of abstracting the 
hardware interface.  This is particularly important when the flow-graphs 
you've
  developed are going to be used by non-GR people, or even people who 
have no particular expertise in modifying software.