# Cgran is weird

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cgran-is-weird/246498>\
**Category:** GNU Radio\
**Created:** [October 22, 2013, 5:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cgran-is-weird/246498 "2013-10-22T05:42:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Sadaf\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@Sadaf\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sadaf_N)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 5:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cgran-is-weird/246498/1 "2013-10-22T05:42:26Z")

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I was trying to install the 802.11b Receiver from  
[https://cgran.org/wiki/SPAN80211b](https://cgran.org/wiki/SPAN80211b)

So I followed the instruction to download the source files using the svn  
as  
follows:  
svn co -r7596 [http://gnuradio.org/svn/gnuradio/trunk](http://gnuradio.org/svn/gnuradio/trunk) gnuradio\_r7596

It gave following message but no file was downloaded.  
$ svn co -r7596 [http://gnuradio.org/svn/gnuradio/trunk](http://gnuradio.org/svn/gnuradio/trunk)  
gnuradio\_r7596  
svn: OPTIONS of ‘[http://gnuradio.org/svn/gnuradio/trunk](http://gnuradio.org/svn/gnuradio/trunk)’: 200 OK (  
[http://gnuradio.org](http://gnuradio.org))

Another attempt gave following error message:  
$ svn co -r7596 [http://gnuradio.org/svn/gnuradio/trunk](http://gnuradio.org/svn/gnuradio/trunk)  
gnuradio\_r7596  
svn: OPTIONS of ‘[http://gnuradio.org/svn/gnuradio/trunk](http://gnuradio.org/svn/gnuradio/trunk)’: could not  
connect to server ([http://gnuradio.org](http://gnuradio.org))

What was wrong? Has cgran been migrated to another location …?

Regards,  
activecat

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**Author:** ![activecat\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@activecat\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/activecat_k)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 5:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cgran-is-weird/246498/2 "2013-10-22T05:50:37Z")

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On 10/21/2013 11:40 PM, Activecat wrote:

> ([http://gnuradio.org](http://gnuradio.org))
> 
> * * *
> 
> Discuss-gnuradio mailing list  
> [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
> [Discuss-gnuradio Info Page](https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio)  
> That project is wildly out-of-date. Gnu Radio hasn’t been using SVN  
> for many years.

CGRAN is just a hosting site for these projects–it’s up to the  
maintainers of said projects to keep their info up-to-date, which  
clearly hasn’t been done  
with that project.

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**Author:** ![activecat\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@activecat\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/activecat_k)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 5:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cgran-is-weird/246498/3 "2013-10-22T05:59:58Z")

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CGRAN founder, here!

Like Marcus said, it’s just out of date code and instructions. This is  
bound to happen with the majority of projects over time. But, the  
benefit  
to anyone is that parts of them can be used to build new things, and if  
you  
really need functionality provided by one of those projects: something  
is  
better than nothing to build from.

That said, if you do get this project installed and running: please  
update  
the wiki instructions 🙂

George

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**Author:** ![activecat\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@activecat\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/activecat_k)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 6:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cgran-is-weird/246498/4 "2013-10-22T06:50:13Z")

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It would be good to have a list of up to date modules.

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**Author:** ![activecat\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@activecat\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/activecat_k)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 7:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cgran-is-weird/246498/5 "2013-10-22T07:22:56Z")

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I’ve found less projects being contributed to CGRAN in general right  
now.  
This is likely to due with the migration to git and github providing a  
nice interface with wikis for each project. So, the majority of  
projects  
on CGRAN right now are a bit dated :\

That said, I’ve been thinking of overhauling CGRAN a bit to be more  
friendly to externally hosted projects and github in general. Really,  
it’s  
meant to be a way for people to find 3rd party applications.

Once I finish my Ph.D. defense (tomorrow-- woot!), I’ll have some more  
time  
to think about it…

- George