Helper script to automatically add blocks

GNU Radio
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Hi list,

since pretty much all of my GNU Radio’ing consists of dealing with
out-of-tree modules I started a script to modify those.
In the current state, it can add blocks to an existing out-of-tree
module. It will attempt to guess a lot of stuff and then add skeleton
code for the blocks and the QA code and edit the makefiles accordingly.
I will still have to add some blocks to my modules before it actually
saves me some time, but I just got pretty annoyed at editing all the
makefiles by hand, and always forgetting one line somewhere.

Following George’s request, I made it available on CGRAN. I couldn’t
resist calling it ‘devtools’ and making it a project for all kinds of
tools, scripts etc. which help developing. Being an optimist, I’m
assuming
there might be others who’ve made scripts, vim/emacs/Eclipse-plugins
etc. and are just waiting for a platform to publish these.
Grab infos and the code at
https://www.cgran.org/wiki/devtools

Disclaimer: This script actually edits your files. It might cause
damage, and take no responsibility. Use at your own risk. I only want to
know about it if it’s in form of a bug report.

Cheers,
MB

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Communications Engineering Lab (CEL)

Dipl.-Ing. Martin B.
Research Associate

Kaiserstraße 12
Building 05.01
76131 Karlsruhe

Phone: +49 721 608-3790
Fax: +49 721 608-6071
www.cel.kit.edu

KIT – University of the State of Baden-Württemberg and
National Laboratory of the Helmholtz Association

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thanks for the contribution Martin :slight_smile:

I have some tools I could add to it myself. I think “devtools” was the
right thing to do. Hopefully several people will contribute other tools
to
it. I will move it to the top of the Projects page.

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On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:56:20AM -0700, George N. wrote:

I have some tools I could add to it myself. I think “devtools” was the
right thing to do. Hopefully several people will contribute other tools to
it. I will move it to the top of the Projects page.

Another interesting thing in this context could be what toolset/ setup
people are using for their ‘daily’ GNU Radio development.

Although I know there’s a lot of people out there (like me) quite happy
with
their setup of vim + gdb + {insertyourtoolhere} grown over the years it
might
be interesting to have a plugin for eclipse or something of this kind.
(read:
less scary for beginners). Some time back I experimented around with
writing a
plugin for eclipse, since at our institute a lot of people getting into
contact with GNU Radio for the first time are quite intimidated by the
rather
let’s say … not overly comfortable autotools.

Please don’t start throwing rocks already :wink:

Beeing not a real java programmer and running out of time for exams I
haven’t
achieved a lot yet but nevertheless to me it seemed like a good place to
try
since eclipse’s wizard structure does conform quite well with the usual
everyday programming tasks for out of tree modules / applications.
Maybe a frontend to Martin’s script might be another approach worth
trying.

So maybe if we add information on work in progress / unfinished projects
and
ideas for future devtools to the wikipage we might find people with
common
interests.

So far,

Moritz