On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Alexandru Csete <oz9...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Tom Rondeau <t...@trondeau.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Alexandru Csete <oz9...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Greetings, >>> >>> Yesterday, I started playing with pybombs and fixed a few recipes >>> related to gr-osmosdr. During this process I made gr-osmosdr depend on >>> uhd, rtl-sdr, osmo-sdr, hackrf and gr-iqbal. I did this to ensure that >>> all supported input devices are made available to users. It should be >>> noted that all these packages are optional and gr-osmosdr would work >>> just fine with gnuradio as the only dependency still supporting >>> funcube dongles and I/Q file sources. >> >> Alex, >> >> Thanks for the report and all of the patches you submitted to PyBOMBS. >> It's a new project and will definitely need wide-spread testing and >> help to get working well on various systems and for various needs. >> >>> Later I will be adding a recipe for the gr-fcdproplus OOT source block >>> and add that as a gr-osmosdr dependency as well. This works well for >>> now since all these driver libraries are recent and well maintained. >>> However, as time goes this driver list will grow and the risk of >>> something breaking will increase. This made me think whether there may >>> be a need for a weaker dependency specification, something like the >>> "recommends" section in deb packages or the "variant" in macports? >> >> The 'recommends' is a very interesting idea. I'm not sure I like >> forcing the installation of all of the base drivers for gr-osmosdr, >> but if we have a menu-driven section if the dependencies are >> recommended and allow the user to select which, if any, to also >> install, that'd be great. >> >> Would you open a feature issue on the PyBOMBS Redmine page suggesting this? > > Done.
Thanks! >>> As an alternate solution here & now, we could just remove all optional >>> dependencies from the gr-osmosdr recipe and instruct users to install >>> their preferred driver libraries prior to installing gr-osmosdr. Or >>> create meta-recipes that would provide the most common combinations. I >>> don't know what would be the best solution. >> >> I'm not sure, either. Until we figure out a concept like the >> recommendations, my preference is to not include them as dependencies, >> but I could be persuaded out of that thought. I'm guessing Philip >> would argue for a meta-layer :) > > Maybe as compromise we can remove all optional dependencies except > rtl-sdr and uhd. That would provide a good default for 95% of the > users today and only require rtl-sdr as extra package since the > gnuradio recipe already depends on uhd. > > Alex I can see that, especially since we have uhd as a dep for gnuradio, too. Also, rtl-sdr is lightweight and only depends on libusb, so it's a pretty safe one to install. And yeah, I agree, that takes care of most people's needs right now. Tom _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio