Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GrExtras - write blocks in python, message passing, misc features...

[Martin Braun]

On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 10:52:50AM -0700, Josh Blum wrote:
> Message passing builds on top of the existing GNU Radio stream tags - to
> give the user an API to simply pass tags (without the streams) as
> messages between blocks. The user can use this feature to implement a
> packet layer in gnuradio, or even do control plane stuff - but all the
> while, sticking to the standard block flow graph model that users are
> familiar with.

Hi Josh,

this is nice stuff. I'll be definitely playing around with it.

One question on the messages: is there a reason messages can't be passed
upstream? That might come in handy on occasions.

MB

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