Looking in from the outside I would agree that a single monolithic
program is not good as a product grows in complexity. It would be great
to have a core radio you communicated with via some mechanism. However
it would seem that Flex would be taking on even more than they are at
present if they had to develop, test, and support multiple core radios
and at least one platform's GUI to satisfy the users who want a first
rate radio and don't care to build pieces themselves.
I have come a lot later to the Flex SDR party than many of you. Perhaps
this has been discussed and there is already a plan worked out for how
that will be handled.
Tim N9PUZ
On 11/22/2010 1:44 PM, Brian Lloyd wrote:
Gary, I think that the goal is to come up with a set of protocols that
allow the control functions and display functions to be separated from
the RF, IF, and DSP functions. Right now the logic inside the processing
is tightly bound to the logic in the GUI. That is a MONUMENTALLY STUPID
ARCHITECTURE, as we are all learning. As I understand it, DI will
separate these. That will allow anyone to write their own GUI using
whatever toolkit they like best, or even make the radio command-line
driven, something that offers its own set of advantages when it comes
time to build an automated radio. It opens up multiple languages as
well. No reason Frank couldn't write his front-end in Lisp while the
"standard" front-end is written in Java for easy portability to all
three major platforms. You could write your own in whatever language you
like using whatever GTK floats your boat.
It is really time for people to stop thinking in terms of how PowerSDR
currently works. DI will be separate programs to run the radio and
interface with the user. It will be a LOT more flexible for everyone. We
*SO* need to get PSDR 2.0 put to bed so that development can proceed
apace on DI.
Yo, Flex! Put the PSDR feature set in concrete and then don't touch it
ever again! :-)
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