Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GSoC 2016 - Improve and Integrate PyBOMBS & CGRAN

[Martin Braun]

The current PyBOMBS has SDK and cross-compile support. I do like the
integration of bitbake, although I'm not sure how that would look and if
you're turning PyBOMBS into something it's not.

Cheers,
Martin

On 03/07/2016 09:46 PM, Ravi Sharan wrote:
> Hi Nathan,
> 
> I agree that the ideas listed out in my previous mail doesn't take all
> of the summer to implement. I which case, I would like to add another
> point to my proposal.
> 
> PyBOMBS support to Embedded WG -
> 
> The idea is fairly simple. The current Embedded WG provides a
> OpenEmbedded(OE) based SDK to develop and build OOT modules. I intend to
> add a layer on top of PyBOMBS to work with OE tools (bitbake etc.,), for
> setting up the environment for SDK and cross-compiling the OOT Modules.
> The module author will have one less thing to worry about while
> developing apps for supported embedded platforms. I need to do a bit of
> homework on this front before I write the proper proposal and any help
> from the embedded WG (Philip Balister) is appreciated in this direction.
> 
> My plan (tentative) as of now is to roughly dedicate 5 weeks to
> implement the app store in the beginning, 3 weeks for adding PyBOMBS
> support to the embedded working group and 3 weeks for the CGRAN-PyBOMBS
> integration (1 week) & CGRAN only work (2 weeks). Last two weeks will be
> dedicated for sanity checks and bug fixes.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ravi Sharan  
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 4:14 AM, West, Nathan
> <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Ravi,
> 
>     I like this. My only qualm is that I'd personally like this project
>     to include some more pybombs work to round out the still missing
>     features. I'm not really a Qt person, so I don't know how much
>     effort doing the app store is and if that leaves much room, but I
>     know that the CGRAN stuff won't take you all summer if you work full
>     time ;-)
> 
>     nw
> 
>     On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 5:40 AM, Ravi Sharan
>     <address@hidden
>     <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> 
>         Hello,
> 
>         I am Ravi Sharan, currently pursuing MTech from IIT Hyderabad. I
>         am looking forward to participate in GSoC 2016 by improving and
>         integrating CGRAN and the newer PyBOMBS. I have earlier worked
>         on redesigning the current version of CGRAN with the help of
>         Nathan West. Here's a brief description of things I would like
>         to contribute to the GNU Radio project:
> 
>         *- Qt based GUI app store - *
>         Develop a simple, usable Qt based GUI app store to install GNU
>         Radio and OOT modules. This sub-idea covers fixing the existing
>         bugs in new PyBOMBS as well.
> 
>         *- Integrate PyBOMBS & CGRAN -* Enable installing OOT modules
>         from CGRAN site
>         This is an idea which Martin Braun put forward during the
>         initial discussions while developing the CGRAN 2.0. The idea is
>         similar to Ubuntu's AptURL
>         <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptURL>, where you can
>         install the packages from a web browser. Clicking the 'apt'
>         (#pun) URL, the browser redirects to the package manager to
>         install the package.
> 
>         *- Enhance CGRAN  -* (from current level to level awesome?) 
>         I intend to implement this sub-idea in two-fold - 
>         *** Add features like clickable tags and grouping the OOT
>         Modules (to name a few) etc., according to their functionality
>         for better usability of the site. [Code Contributions]
>         *** Since the relaunch of CGRAN in April 2015, very few OOT
>         Modules have surfaced on the site. I would like to add more
>         documentation to the individual modules (like what works and
>         what doesn't, compatibility with the current GNU Radio API,
>         etc.,), thus populating CGRAN with modules listed out on the
>         site. This idea is more of documentation, but is a little time
>         consuming.
> 
>         I will document the above mentioned ideas in the form of
>         proposal based on the feedback I receive and would like to work
>         with Martin Braun and Nathan West during the GSoC period. Apart
>         from the ideas listed above, I am open for suggestions on what
>         could make a good proposal and better summer of coding.
> 
>         Thanks,
>         Ravi Sharan B A G
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