Re: Windows Installer for GR 3.8.2 Just In Time!

Hi Geof,

That's awesome! Thank you for all the effort you put into this, and for all the doors you
open with this.

Releasing and packaging 3.8 will be with us for quite a while; I mean, clearly, we
wouldn't be calling our branches maint-3.Something if they weren't meant as longer-term
maintenance release branches; and clearly, nobody is expecting 100% GNU Radio market share
by end of January, either :)

I see a couple of new PRs against maint-3.8 [1], and I'd like to do another 3.8-series
release, soon, too, soon as we've merged these. I think we've got enough bugs to fix :)

Best regards,
Marcus

[1] https://github.com/gnuradio/gnuradio/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+base%3Amaint-3.8

On 19.01.21 02:23, Geof Nieboer wrote:
> All,
>
> To celebrate the release of GR 3.9, I'm releasing a Python3-based Windows Installer for GR
> 3.8.2* !
>
> Download it here
> <http://www.gcndevelopment.com/gnuradio/downloads/installers/v3.8.2.1/gnuradio_3.8.2.0_win64.msi>.
>
> This uses vcpkg to build (nearly*) all the C++ dependencies, and as mentioned in an
> earlier email, uses standard pip with Python 3.9 to install the GR python dependencies as
> well.
>
> It includes several commonly used SDR drivers; UHD, rtl-sdr, SoapySDR, HackRF, BladeRF,
> and airspy, with most wrapped in the gr-osmosdr package.
>
> In addition it includes the popular gqrx application and the gr-fosphor blocks.
>
> As with previous installers, gr-3.7 and gr-3.8 can be installed side by side, and the same
> will apply to gr-3.9 when released.
>
> *Caveats: Technically it's not the 3.8.2 release, it's the head of maint-3.8 to include
> several important fixes.
> Also, vcpkg worked fine, except for gobject-introspection.  While I have a solid idea what
> the problem is, it wasn't worth delaying the release so did a bit of manual magic outside
> the scripts to get gtk properly copied over.
>
> Known Bugs: flowgraphs that include a gr-fosphor sink crash on when the flowgraph is closed.
>
> Enjoy!  Now that a GR 3.9 release is out and the scripts have been updated, expect a GR
> 3.9 installer soon (or at least a minimum pull requests submitted...)
>
> Geof
>
>
>