On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Josh Blum <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > If you have to use some other library and are looking to put the code
> into
> > GNU Radio, we can talk. If it's in gr-trellis, we could add an extra
> > dependency just for that component. Otherwise, I had a thought of making
> > something like a "gr-scientific" component. This was mostly meant to move
> > the wavelet stuff out of gnuradio-core and thereby removing GSL as a
> > required dependency for the main stuff. That hasn't happened mainly
> because
> > a) only one block would go into gr-scientific so it seems a waste and b)
> > gsl is so easy to install on any distro that I know about. Adding another
> > scientific library and block that uses it might be a good incentive to do
> > something like this.
> >
>
> Would it be reasonable to just build the block conditionally whether or
> not the dependent library is installed? If the library was not
> available, the block's factory function could just throw "block not
> available, built without gsl support".
>
> -josh


We could, but that seems like a support/organizational nightmare. It'd have
to be done such that it'd be easy to update and keep track of these kinds
of things. Right now, there are a small enough number of these special
cases, but this could change.

Tom
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