Hi Frank, Point well taken however my point is independent of how the code is partitioned... Readers of my previous notes know I'm in favor of breaking up PowerSDR.
However, just breaking up a monolithic program won't in and of itself produce simplicity. In fact, done poorly it will make things much worse. An example would forcing users to try to juggle OS priorities of a number of communicating apps to get solid functioning Simplicity is the result of genius at all levels in producing a system. In particular taking all aspects of the solution including priority in to the partitioning decisions is essential. Forcing users to add programs of huge functionality to use a small bit of function eg. MixW for code generation is not simplicity. Neither is forcing users to consume extra system resources and add hardware simplicity. I know you genius are up to further refining an elegant solution - as a system. To elegance! 73's Rob AB7CF On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:22:17 -0500 Frank Brickle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 07:47 -0800, Rob Dennison wrote: > > > > System bloat occurs when, in the name of minimizing code bloat, > users are > > required to add more and more programs and boxes to the computer > to > > perform functions easily done in code. System bloat is far more > > pernicious than code bloat. > > Unfortunately I think Rob's point here is somewhat tainted by an > overly-narrow view of how the radio software is developing and > where > it's headed. His general point is well taken, but it appears to be > based > on a concept of the software as a single application rather than a > virtual radio *system* for combining functions *into* an > application. > > The "single application" model is explicitly what we're abandoning. > While Rob's appeal to simplicity is laudable, his recommendations > for > achieving it are more appropriate to a continuation of the old > model > rather than embracing the new one. > > 73 > Frank > AB2KT > > > > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
