Tom Rondeau wrote (in a different thread): > You can run GNU Radio using the new version of the hierarchical blocks.
Strictly speaking, the new hierarchical blocks should really be called "new runtime with (optionally) nestable flow graphs." Existing, "single-level" flow graphs will run nearly unchanged, with some fairly minor syntactic changes in the the code. Thus, release 3.1 will have a new way to create flow graphs of existing blocks. In addition, this new capability will allow one to encapsulate an entire flow graph, with arbitrary numbers of inputs and outputs, into a single block definition, which can then itself be used in another flowgraph, etc. (Contrast this to the existing hierarchical blocks, which can only take a single input and single output.) The plan for the 3.1 release is to duplicate the existing GNU Radio examples but use the the new infrastructure for them. In addition, the hierarchical blocks that live in the blks namespace will be duplicated into blks2. As of 3.1 the "old" way of using gr.flow_graph will be supported, but deprecated. Having this period of time where these both exist side by side will allow a graceful cut over in user code, and in release 3.2, we'll be removing the old way of doing things. In the trunk right now, the code is done and is usable, but still has some issues. If you just want to create flat or nested flow graphs, it works fine. Josh Blum has converted his GNU Radio Companion project to use the new feature set. A new capability, however, is to be able to reconfigure a running flow graph and preserve all the data in transit between blocks that are unaffected. This is buggy right now and will likely remain "experimental" for the release. The new runtime and flow graph infrastructure is now written entirely in C++. This foreshadows another release 3.2 feature, the ability to write GNU Radio applications entirely in C++, with no Python interpreter needed. -- Johnathan Corgan Corgan Enterprises LLC http://corganenterprises.com _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio