Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why Isn't GNU Radio Used More?

[Michael Dickens]

Good points, Kunal.  I know that Tom has talked about having nightly builds for 
the major OSs -- as much as anything to make sure that the GIT master always 
compiles and passes "make check" at the end of the day.  Maybe he could also 
set up that system such that it provides those builds as installable tarballs?  
I think part of the issue here is that GNU Radio has so many -required- 
dependencies that the tarball would be very large for some OSs to make sure all 
of the dependencies are met -- certainly not impossible, but maybe difficult 
until gnuradio-core is further split into smaller parts? - MLD

On May 9, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Kunal Kandekar wrote:
> Could it also be because GNU Radio has always treated the Windows platform as 
> a second-class citizen? 
> 
> I have tried installing GNU Radio on all three major OSes, Linux (RHEL, 
> Ubuntu), OS X (10.5, 10.6) and Windows (XP, using Cygwin), and I never 
> managed to get it running on Windows. On the other hand, it's been ~5 years 
> since I tried and gave up, so things may have changed. Getting it running on 
> OS X and Linux was (relatively) easy. 
> 
> Windows is the most widespread desktop/laptop OS, and having to switch to 
> Linux, or needing a separate machine, for GNU Radio development could be 
> significant barrier to adoption.
> 
> It may be helpful to look at what people *do* use instead of GNU Radio, and 
> see how they differ.