Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How can we make GNU Radio better?

2011-05-11 Thread Michael Dickens
On May 11, 2011, at 11:06 AM, Tom Rondeau wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Michael Dickens wrote: > * 'b' for bit, 'B' for byte, 'c' for char, 'f' for 32-bit IEEE float, etc... > > we have a problem. 'c' is used for complex numbers, so what do we do about > characters? I think we're pro

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How can we make GNU Radio better?

2011-05-11 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Michael Dickens wrote: > On May 11, 2011, at 4:33 AM, Martin Braun wrote: > > I'll just name some things from the top of my head... [snip] I realise > most of these things are very typical for such a large FOSS projects with so > many contributors, but still, I ca

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How can we make GNU Radio better?

2011-05-11 Thread Michael Dickens
On May 11, 2011, at 4:33 AM, Martin Braun wrote: > I'll just name some things from the top of my head... [snip] I realise most > of these things are very typical for such a large FOSS projects with so many > contributors, but still, I can imagine they can confuse other people than me. For the sa

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How can we make GNU Radio better?

2011-05-11 Thread Martin Braun
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:11:55PM -0400, Michael Dickens wrote: > On May 10, 2011, at 4:21 AM, Martin Braun wrote: > > 3a) Remove inconsistencies which have popped up due to the organic > > 'growth' of GNU Radio over the last years. > > Can you elaborate on what you see these inconsistencies to b

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How can we make GNU Radio better?

2011-05-10 Thread Michael Dickens
On May 10, 2011, at 4:21 AM, Martin Braun wrote: > 3a) Remove inconsistencies which have popped up due to the organic > 'growth' of GNU Radio over the last years. Can you elaborate on what you see these inconsistencies to be? Even just an example of one would probably suffice. - MLD

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How can we make GNU Radio better?

2011-05-10 Thread Martin Braun
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 03:23:21PM -0400, Philip Balister wrote: > Rather than flog the topic of what is wrong with GNU Radio, I'd > prefer to emphasize that it is only as good as we make it. So how > can we make it better. Here are some of my thoughts: > > 1) Expand the pool of people contributin

[Discuss-gnuradio] How can we make GNU Radio better?

2011-05-09 Thread Philip Balister
Rather than flog the topic of what is wrong with GNU Radio, I'd prefer to emphasize that it is only as good as we make it. So how can we make it better. Here are some of my thoughts: 1) Expand the pool of people contributing code. 2) Improve the grc help files and parameter descriptions. 3) D