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On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 05:33:24AM +0100, Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras wrote:

Well, this is exactly what everyone recommends not to do, they tell, go with
the latest sources.

Well, we do have crazy release cycles at the moment, and every new
release has that critical new feature. This also imposes theoretical
bounds on the quality of the documentation, because it’s hard to keep
that up-to-date if the code changes so rapidly.

If the packages were more up-to-date, it would be no problem if people
used them, but right now even the latest release often is not enough.

MB

Cc: [email protected]

It is for this reason that I will be happy when the majority of users install
GNU Radio via operating system vendor supplied packages. Right now this can be
done using Ubuntu 12.10, Debian “testing”, and a couple versions of RedHat
Linux (I don’t recall the details.)

Johnathan

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On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Martin B. (CEL)
[email protected]wrote:

Well, we do have crazy release cycles at the moment, and every new
release has that critical new feature. This also imposes theoretical
bounds on the quality of the documentation, because it’s hard to keep
that up-to-date if the code changes so rapidly.

If the packages were more up-to-date, it would be no problem if people
used them, but right now even the latest release often is not enough.

Yes, we’re going through some rather rapid new feature development and
code
reorganization right now. Our plan, once we get 3.7 released, is to
focus
instead on propagating these new features into our existing blocks and
examples, and not do so much deep surgery at the API level.

Johnathan

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On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras
[email protected]wrote:

Well, this is exactly what everyone recommends not to do, they tell,
go with the latest sources. ****

Ralph.

That’s very outdated advice, though understandable. For a long time, the
latest version you could get was 3.2. We now have 3.6.1 available
through
apt-get on Ubuntu. This is quite new enough for most people. We’re lucky
now to have Maitland working closely with us and Debian to make
up-to-date
versions available.

As Martin said, there’s always a desire to have the latest and greatest,
and we are moving quite fast with bug fixes and new features. But those
new
features also come with their own bugs and issues.

What I’d really like to see happen is that the majority of our users go
with the distributed versions, including the ones available through your
package manager. Only those who are developers or if someone identifies
a
particular need, feature, bug fix, etc. in the newer code would move to
getting GNU Radio through our git repos.

Tom