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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GSoC 2016 - Improve and Integrate PyBOMBS & CGRAN
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Martin Braun |
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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GSoC 2016 - Improve and Integrate PyBOMBS & CGRAN |
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Tue, 8 Mar 2016 10:19:40 -0800 |
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The current PyBOMBS has SDK and cross-compile support. I do like the
integration of bitbake, although I'm not sure how that would look and if
you're turning PyBOMBS into something it's not.
Cheers,
Martin
On 03/07/2016 09:46 PM, Ravi Sharan wrote:
> Hi Nathan,
>
> I agree that the ideas listed out in my previous mail doesn't take all
> of the summer to implement. I which case, I would like to add another
> point to my proposal.
>
> PyBOMBS support to Embedded WG -
>
> The idea is fairly simple. The current Embedded WG provides a
> OpenEmbedded(OE) based SDK to develop and build OOT modules. I intend to
> add a layer on top of PyBOMBS to work with OE tools (bitbake etc.,), for
> setting up the environment for SDK and cross-compiling the OOT Modules.
> The module author will have one less thing to worry about while
> developing apps for supported embedded platforms. I need to do a bit of
> homework on this front before I write the proper proposal and any help
> from the embedded WG (Philip Balister) is appreciated in this direction.
>
> My plan (tentative) as of now is to roughly dedicate 5 weeks to
> implement the app store in the beginning, 3 weeks for adding PyBOMBS
> support to the embedded working group and 3 weeks for the CGRAN-PyBOMBS
> integration (1 week) & CGRAN only work (2 weeks). Last two weeks will be
> dedicated for sanity checks and bug fixes.
>
> Cheers,
> Ravi Sharan
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 4:14 AM, West, Nathan
> <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
> Hi Ravi,
>
> I like this. My only qualm is that I'd personally like this project
> to include some more pybombs work to round out the still missing
> features. I'm not really a Qt person, so I don't know how much
> effort doing the app store is and if that leaves much room, but I
> know that the CGRAN stuff won't take you all summer if you work full
> time ;-)
>
> nw
>
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 5:40 AM, Ravi Sharan
> <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am Ravi Sharan, currently pursuing MTech from IIT Hyderabad. I
> am looking forward to participate in GSoC 2016 by improving and
> integrating CGRAN and the newer PyBOMBS. I have earlier worked
> on redesigning the current version of CGRAN with the help of
> Nathan West. Here's a brief description of things I would like
> to contribute to the GNU Radio project:
>
> *- Qt based GUI app store - *
> Develop a simple, usable Qt based GUI app store to install GNU
> Radio and OOT modules. This sub-idea covers fixing the existing
> bugs in new PyBOMBS as well.
>
> *- Integrate PyBOMBS & CGRAN -* Enable installing OOT modules
> from CGRAN site
> This is an idea which Martin Braun put forward during the
> initial discussions while developing the CGRAN 2.0. The idea is
> similar to Ubuntu's AptURL
> <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptURL>, where you can
> install the packages from a web browser. Clicking the 'apt'
> (#pun) URL, the browser redirects to the package manager to
> install the package.
>
> *- Enhance CGRAN -* (from current level to level awesome?)
> I intend to implement this sub-idea in two-fold -
> *** Add features like clickable tags and grouping the OOT
> Modules (to name a few) etc., according to their functionality
> for better usability of the site. [Code Contributions]
> *** Since the relaunch of CGRAN in April 2015, very few OOT
> Modules have surfaced on the site. I would like to add more
> documentation to the individual modules (like what works and
> what doesn't, compatibility with the current GNU Radio API,
> etc.,), thus populating CGRAN with modules listed out on the
> site. This idea is more of documentation, but is a little time
> consuming.
>
> I will document the above mentioned ideas in the form of
> proposal based on the feedback I receive and would like to work
> with Martin Braun and Nathan West during the GSoC period. Apart
> from the ideas listed above, I am open for suggestions on what
> could make a good proposal and better summer of coding.
>
> Thanks,
> Ravi Sharan B A G
>
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