Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Xlate FIR filter broken in gr 3.7

[Tom Rondeau]

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Marcus D. Leech <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 08/08/2013 05:01 PM, Andrew Davis wrote:
>
> Also, this change breaks a very important and very used part of hundreds of
> projects over the last ten years to make a variable name make slightly more
> since, when you could just change the variable name to 'frequency_shift' and
> leave the functionality the way it was.
>
> Andrew


Referring to an earlier comment, "center_frequency" /always/ refers to
the frequency of the incoming signal. It would/could/should never be
confused as the center frequency of the signal used to down convert
the incoming signal. This was a bug in the original code and I took
the opportunity to fix it in the 3.7 block.

> I have to agree.  It's one thing to muck with the API semantics of a block
> that is "new" and hardly anyone has used.  It's quite another to
>   make a change like this on a block that has been in use for many years,
> with folks having figured out the semantics, despite the odd naming.
>
>
> --
> Marcus Leech
> Principal Investigator
> Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium
> http://www.sbrac.org

With everything else that we've changed in 3.7, changing a + to a -
seems like a pretty simple thing. The fix will stay.

I have updated the wiki page that discusses the changes needed to go
from 3.6 to 3.7 to include this omission
(http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/Move_3-6_to_3-7).

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Tom
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