The master branch has been updated with the fixes to the GRC blocks.

Thanks again for the reports!

Tom




On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Tom Rondeau <trondeau1...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Paul M. Bendixen 
> <paulbendi...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Did a little more digging
>> cd [gitdir]/grc/
>> find . -name "*" | xargs grep digital
>>
>> Returns nothing, on the other hand grepping blks2.gmsk_mod returns:
>> ./Makefile.am: blks2_gmsk_mod.xml \
>> ./block_tree.xml: <block>blks2_gmsk_mod</block>
>> ./blks2_gmsk_mod.xml: <key>blks2_gmsk_mod</key>
>> ./blks2_gmsk_mod.xml: <make>blks2.gmsk_mod(
>>
>
>
> Fixing these now. About to push the patch.
>
>
>
>> In other words: the XML structure of the grc that has to do with anything
>> moved to digital must be updated, before 3.5 can be compared to a stable
>> environment.
>>
>> XML has never been my strong suit, so I won't start looking into it.
>> Furthermore some of the blocks have changed input parameters (e.g.
>> gmsk_demod).
>>
>> Perhaps merging next into master was a little premature?
>>
>> Best regards
>> Paul
>>
>
> I don't think so at all. The problem is there are no automated test for
> this kind of stuff, and there's a lot of code that's of concern here. The
> only way we could get these kinds of error reports was to get the real users
> of GNU Radio to test them. These problems have been around in the old 'next'
> branch for a while, but without being used, there was no way for us to get
> these kinds of bug reports that is allowing us to fix them.
>
> In other words, I really appreciate you checking these things out and
> reporting the errors. This is also why we have stable releases. For people
> who have environments where stability is a concern, they should stick with
> the releases.
>
> I went through and checked the GRC blocks against everything I moved into
> gr-digital, so hopefully there is nothing left that I missed. I wonder if we
> can make a piece of automatic test code that would try to load each of the
> GRC XML blocks and report an error if it can't be loaded properly?
>
> Thanks! Let me know if you find anything else.
>
> Tom
>
>
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