Re: gr-iqbal, gr-fosphor, gr-osmosdr updated to Gnuradio 3.8

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Wow, Sylvain, this is awesome!

Especially: thank you for handling the "obscure" special 3.7+qt5 case.

Cheers,
Marcus

On Sun, 2019-12-08 at 21:31 +0100, Sylvain Munaut wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have just pushed updates to various osmocom repositories, updating
> them to run on gnuradio 3.8.
> 
> Here's the status per project :
> 
> * gr-iqbal :
>    - Old gnuradio 3.7 version been forked into a 'gr3.7' branch and
> will remain there. It won't be maintained and will most likely never
> receive any further updates.
>    - 'master' now contains the gnuradio 3.8 compatible code and the
> latest version has also been tagged.
> 
> * gr-fopshor :
>    - The gnuradio 3.7 version actually got updated a bit with some new
> functionality, then moved over to also a 'gr3.7'. Again, I won't
> backport future features to it so I don't really expect any further
> updates.
>    - Because I know some distribution still maintain a gnuradio 3.7
> package but removed Qt4 (and so ported gnuradio to Qt5), I also
> created a 'gr3.7-qt5' branch that's designed to work with gnuradio 3.7
> but using Qt5 instead of Qt4.
>    - Finally, 'master' contains the gnuradio 3.8 compatible code. ATM
> there is no functional (as in 'fosphor features') differences with the
> two others, it's just Qt5 support and Makefile changes.
>    - A couple of the interesting new features that have been added :
>      . Fixes the long standing bug of NVidia CL/GL sharing not working
> (thanks Aaron Giles for figuring out root cause)
>      . Memory leak fix (thanks Emil Berg for reporting)
>      . Improved CL device compatibility check before trying to use
> them (thanks to Ethan Trewhitt)
>      . Allow explicit selection of the CL device via FOSPHOR_CL_DEV
> env var if you have several CL platform/devices.
> 
> * gr-osmosdr :
>     - 'master' is still 3.7 version, same code as before but has been
> tagged and a 'gr3.7' branch has been created in anticipation that
> master will become 3.8
>     - An experimental 'gr3.8' branch has been added that contains an
> upgrade to Gnuradio 3.8 (based off the work from Mickey Vänskä and
> Maitland Bottoms).
>       . I tested it with UHD / Blade RF / Hack RF which are all the
> devices I have available.
>       . It also adds support for the Airspy HF courtesy of Alexandru Csete
>       . Still feel free to use it as base for packaging and report any
> additional patch you have to apply for the build.
>       . Once I have enough success report, this will land in master.
>       . Currently the utilities in apps _have_not_ been ported to 3.8
> (especially GUI changed to Qt5) ... if anyone wants to do that and
> send me a diff, that would be _very_ welcome and I'll include that in
> this branch.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>      Sylvain Munaut
> 
> PS: bcc'd package maintainer I thought of.
>

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