Hi All, Recently in the news section of the main site and also hacaday is PimpMyGRC a visual retheming of Gnuradio, over on github there are many issues, it is breaking entire gnuradio installs and their dependancies leaving even reinstallation of gnuradio an absolute pain without jumping through lots of hoops to get it back on the system, then broken paths to fix an OS reinstall is quicker. It looks like it will work for very very specific combinations of linux flavour and gnuradio version but outside those unlisted system configs (we know the correct gnuradio version but nothing more than that) it will break gnuradio, and it’s dependancies and break paths for anything that relies on gnuradio runtimes.
The media attention brought lots of downloads, people are testing it, they are reporting issues, in 48 hours not 1 word of engagement from the dev, no suggestions, no assistance, no offer of a new script to test before it’s pushed out, nada.
Emailed carl at rtl admin and editor at hackaday suggesting they pull the stories, open source is open source we all take the risk but if someone publishes something about your work you need to be there for the people testing it.
v3.10 is the recommendend gnuradio version from the readme but from the issues you can see things like v3.10.09 is behaving differently from v3.10.08 etc, it looks to me like there should be a script for each and every 3.10.xx itteration, tested and working with a full readme section specific to each 10.xx itteration, before anything is released or plugged in an article. the exact version pulled down by atp is dependent on the flavour and version of linux you are using there is little user control without adding new repos, so without an individual pimpmygrc script for each itteration it will be difficult for example it breaks main.py, it would need to know the contents of each itterations main.py and test to decide which to use before applying a theme - and thats just 1 file of the several modified by pimpmygrc. It’s built in restore function does not work in some senarios.
Maybe i’m old school but in my day a desk at IBM in london came with a bed behind it, you slept when the problem was resolved and you were still expected to present yourself at 8am looking like your ready for the queen to inspect her troops.