Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Directory structure explained!

[Rob Judd]

Eric Blossom wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 04:21:18AM +1000, Rob Judd wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been wondering why I found gnuradio so incomprehensible to work on,
> 
> Lack of documentation?
> 
> > and just discovered the reason. Find attached the structure of
> > directories as it stands, after one minor attempt to build under cygwin.
> 
> Saving you some time, the biggest obstacle to building under cygwin is
> going to be our use of shmget and friends at the end of
> gnuradio/src/pspectra/lib/VrBuffer.c : allocateBuffer.

Yes indeed.

> It won't be hard to refactor, but you'll need to work out the magic
> required to work on that proprietary OS.  (I suggest you work from the
> CVS head.  Patches you generate will be much easier for me to apply.)
> 
> > Is there some way this can be reduced/combined without losing separation
> > between functional components, or at least can the nesting level be
> > brought down somewhat?
> 
> Yes, there are some things that we'd love to move around soon, and
> some things that we'd like to merge and/or remove.
> 
> FWIW, moving stuff in CVS is a bit of a bear.  It ends up being an add
> followed by a delete, with the side effect that the easy access to all
> of the previous revisions is lost.  They're still in there, just
> associated with the deleted file.


Sounds like it's time for a new tree. Just leave it where it is and
start again.


> Below are a few annotations:

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> 
> I hope this helps remove some of the mystery.

It did.

Rob