Please tell me the SharePoint server has no backups, and is running off a 56K modem running on GNURadio in somebody's grandmother's basement...
Michael On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Marcus Müller <marcus.muel...@ettus.com> wrote: > Hi Martin, > > thanks for wrapping up the news! > Just to add a bit from the developers/infrastructural side of things: > From the infrastructure side of things, we've agreed to migrate to our > own SharePoint server, and ditch git. It had terrible Perforce support, > and isn't really suited for VisualStudio projects. Also, it was really > more complex that it should have been. Obviously, that breaks pybombs > and build-gnuradio, but we should soon be seeing GR on the Windows 8/10 > App Store. > > I've spent the profits from last GRCON on the StackOverflow sponsoring > and Facebook adverising. You will be seeing the new GR4 logo next to > questions tagged with gnu-radio and software-defined-radio starting next > monday, and people with related interests (hams, .Net devs, or > GR-connected FB account) will see ads in their FB timeline soon, too; > the idea is that the revenue that we can generate by placing > successively more ads on gnuradio.org will quickly cover our FB > expenses, and will also give the project a touch of professionalism that > basically made all but academic lunatics stay away from GR. > > Enjoy the ride, > Marcus > > On 04/01/2015 09:30 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio >
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