Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Clone existing blocks in my own GNURadio project

Dear Marcus,

Thanks for your answer. I have no doubt that you provide a very quick
and wise help for every request.

The thing is that, sometimes we just want to add something in the code
which is especially designed for our system and that will not really
help the community. Let's imagine that I want to add a debug line into a
source file : there is no technical difficulty so I do not contact you,
I just apply the process that I described before (gr_modtool,
copy/paste, ...). So I was thinking that such a tool could help the
community.

Best,

NAVES Raphaël

On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 16:46:05 +0000, Müller wrote:
> Hello!
>
> No, no such tool exists.
>
> There's to hearts beating in my breast regarding your question:
>
> On one hand, I want GNU Radio to be as usable for any user out there.
> On the other hand, if you really frequently find yourself in the
> situation that you just slightly change the behaviour of an existing
> GNU Radio block, you should *really* make that change in GNU Radio
> and
> contribute the code, so that all users benefit from it.
>
> So, I think there's convincing arguments for a project to not foster
> a
> workflow where fragmentation of the codebase is accelerated, and
> thus,
> I'm afraid it's rather unlikely that there will be such a tool in the
> foreseeable future.
>
> What I, and we, as a project, can offer, however, is the utmost
> support
> at getting your modifications into mainline GNU Radio really fast.
> Just
> ask us!
>
> Best regards,
> Marcus
>
> On Tue, 2019-01-15 at 17:27 +0100, NAVES Raphael wrote:
>> Dear GNURadio users,
>>
>> Most of the time, when working on my own GNURadio project, I need to
>> add some minor modifications on already existing GNURadio blocks
>> (add a
>> function in the c++/python file for instance or add a new parameter
>> in
>> the xml file). Since I do not want to modify the original code, what
>> I
>> do is to create a new block in my own project using the gr_modtool.
>> Then
>> I copy/paste the code from original files (c++, xml, ...) replacing
>> all
>> the function names, with the appropriate imports. Finally, I add my
>> own
>> modifications.
>>
>> The copy/paste phase may be really boring especially when blocks
>> depend
>> on other blocks.
>>
>> So, my question is: Does it exists a tool (like gr_modtool) to clone
>> an
>> already existing block and the corresponding source code? Otherwise,
>> I
>> would appreciate to have a command like $clone original_block_name
>> new_block_name$ which would duplicate the original_block_name code
>> into
>> the new_block_name, with all the appropriate function names and
>> imports.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> NAVES Raphaël
>>
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