I am in a real quandary. I am about to abandon all attempts to use GNURadio and Python. I have spent 40 or 50 hours trying to untangle problems getting them to run. The lack of documentation makes the problem unfathomable.
In my last post I said I was going to leapfrog the problem of GNURadio, Python, and Windows and go straight to my intended final host, Raspberry Pi and Linux. Well I did the routine and got to GNURadio and it failed in an entirely different way. Searching reveals that this failure is well documented for over a year and no one has put out a workaround (that I can find).
I think it is time for me to quit trying to rely on other people's software. When it doesn't work I am at a loss to find a solution. It is time to strip away the GNURadio, Python, third party "blocks" and write all the code myself. And I'm thinking assembly code for the ARM. The majority of code that I have written in over 60 year has been assembly code. At that level, when I write a statement I know exactly what the processor will do. I don't have to be concerned with how many machine instructions some compiler will slap together or what path is needed to pull in some one else's undocumented code.
The unfortunate part of this is, I was going to make the result available to anyone. That could be difficult if it is hard coded.
Don't ding me too hard for the rant please.
In my last post I said I was going to leapfrog the problem of GNURadio, Python, and Windows and go straight to my intended final host, Raspberry Pi and Linux. Well I did the routine and got to GNURadio and it failed in an entirely different way. Searching reveals that this failure is well documented for over a year and no one has put out a workaround (that I can find).
I think it is time for me to quit trying to rely on other people's software. When it doesn't work I am at a loss to find a solution. It is time to strip away the GNURadio, Python, third party "blocks" and write all the code myself. And I'm thinking assembly code for the ARM. The majority of code that I have written in over 60 year has been assembly code. At that level, when I write a statement I know exactly what the processor will do. I don't have to be concerned with how many machine instructions some compiler will slap together or what path is needed to pull in some one else's undocumented code.
The unfortunate part of this is, I was going to make the result available to anyone. That could be difficult if it is hard coded.
Don't ding me too hard for the rant please.
