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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