It's just not fair to keep reminding me that today's 1 APR. It's been too busy to sort out the cruft from the rest of it all.
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Marcus D. Leech <mle...@ripnet.com> wrote: > On 04/01/2015 03:30 PM, Martin Braun wrote: > >> Hey everyone, >> >> as you might have heard, a GNU Radio hackfest is going on in sunny >> California, and one thing we've gotten going is the 4.1 release for GNU >> Radio. As you can tell, this is a major version jump. >> >> Here's a release summary: >> >> *Move to .NET*: This is probably the biggest change for now. Because of >> our continuing troubles with SWIG, we decided to move to a different >> platform for interoperating between a high-performance language and an easy >> scripting language, and .NET serves this cause. So, anything previously >> written in C++ is now in C#, and for the simple stuff (previously Python >> blocks) we now use ASP.NET. This is also fantastic as it finally allows >> graphical development using Visual Basic. >> >> This also allowed us to modify the block API. The downside is, all OOT >> modules will be incompatible with GR4 -- maybe gr_modtool will provide >> conversion utilities once it has been ported to Delphi. >> >> Linux support is currently not available -- this is not ideal, but we >> figured the 3.x series had broken Windows support for a long time, so this >> simply moves the problem to a different operating system. Unfortunately, we >> can't provide liveSDR ISOs anymore, now, because of licensing issues. As >> soon as mono picks up the slack, we'll be able to port GNU Radio 4 to Mono >> and Linux support will be mostly back on track. >> >> *Embedded Support*: As a result of the embedded Linux conference the week >> prior to the hackfest, we realized that this whole 'embedded' thing is just >> a fad and is eating up our development resources. We are thus dropping >> embedded platform support for now, although we might revisit this when >> embedded Windows becomes more popular. >> >> *GNU Radio Companion:* To overcome the lack of volunteers developing GRC, >> we will be integrating our graphical development process into the .NET >> framework also. As mentioned before, Visual Basic is ideally suited for the >> development of graphical widgets and we're anticipating a surge in new >> graphical widgets from the community. >> >> On the community side, there'll be a couple of changes, too: Some already >> guessed we'd be dropping the mailing list as a communications platform when >> we announced our endorsement of Stack Overflow. The mailing list will go >> down as soon as we have a new web-based forum available, where users can >> post images inline as well as use Emojis. To avoid excessive trolling, >> users will either need a Facebook or Paypal account to log in. >> >> Thanks everyone for being part of this community and keeping it going! >> Of course, all the new stuff can be found on the 4.1 release website: >> >> http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/Release4 >> >> Cheers, >> Martin >> >> >> You know, there's a tradition about April 1, that jokes played after > 13:00 local cause bad kharma to flow to the joker. Just, you know, sayin'. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio > -- Gerry Creager NSSL/CIMMS 405.325.6371 ++++++++++++++++++++++ “Big whorls have little whorls, That feed on their velocity; And little whorls have lesser whorls, And so on to viscosity.” Lewis Fry Richardson (1881-1953)
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