All, The first of the release 3.2 series tarballs have been posted to gnuradio.org:
http://gnuradio.org/releases/gnuradio/gnuradio-3.2rc0.tar.gz http://gnuradio.org/releases/gnuradio/gr-howto-write-a-block-3.2rc0.tar.gz These are essentially the same as the current trunk, except that they are distributed as tarballs rather than requiring the Subversion client. This means they have all the same features, build requirements, and known bugs as the trunk. The main purpose of this release candidate is to test that the tarballs have been created correctly, have all the needed files, and can build and install without errors. The 3.2 development effort has gone on for quite some time, yet all of its testing and usage to date has been through checked-out copies of the trunk. So it is possible that we have some latent build system bugs when building from tarballs. Just a few words about how we handle stable and development versions of GNU Radio: All of the development for GNU Radio occurs either on our "trunk" branch in our repository or in developer branches that ultimately get merged with the trunk. This is where you find all the latest features as well some things that are work in progress but not fully functional. Users are free to obtain the trunk software via version control client (Subversion), but the only strongly enforced policy we have here is that the software should compile correctly. People who have written their own Python scripts or C++ applications that link to or otherwise use the trunk version of GNU Radio have no guarantees that it will continue to have the same API or work as expected. We do periodically perform deep surgery that breaks compatibility. The official releases of GNU Radio are forked off the trunk at intervals to form a stable branch that only receives bug fixes and minor feature updates. While development continues on the trunk, we backport bug fixes or subsets of new functionality in such a way that all your existing code based on the stable release should continue to work without impact. We did this for release 3.0 through 3.0.4 and 3.1 through 3.1.3, and this release candidate series will converge to become the new "stable" branch, 3.2. Johnathan Corgan Corgan Enterprises LLC _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
