On 12/19/2014 02:56 PM, John Meloche wrote: > [...] > forward. At a training course from Corgan Labs in the spring we were > warned that binaries will be phased out in favour of pybombs. > This leads me to a few questions: > 1) Will the binaries be available and supported into the future or will > pybombs eventualy be the method of choice?
Not sure what exactly you discussed with Johnathan, but in general we recommend people to use the binaries (apt-get install), unless you need a newer version or want to particpate in development. In particular, for beginners this is a good choice because it removes at least one awkward stage of getting started. Note that you should have at least a 3.7.x version. Latest Ubuntus ship this. If this is not the case, that would be one case where we don't recommend using binaries. > 2) Is there an advantage to using one method over the other? The obvious ones: apt-get is easier, pybombs gives you more flexibility and newest stuff. The latter also has the advantage that you have immediate access to lots of OOT modules. > 3) Is there a way to identify a package version that is considered to > be long term support compared to a minor bug fix (similar to the way > that Ubuntu has identified its versions)? We don't really have this. You can see some releases have four-figure version numbers (e.g. 3.7.5.1) which is what happens when we add some bugfixes to a release (in this case, 3.7.5). There's still too much change going on with GNU Radio to freeze an LTS version of it. Cheers, M _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
