[hpsdr] PowerSDR Rewrite

[Bob McGwier]

PowerSDR is being rewritten in VS2008.  I did a port of a test branch of 
the VS2003 code on January 24 after reading myriad reports that VS2008 
migration from VS2003 was MUCH easier than to VS2005 because MS gave up 
on the practices they tried to enforce in VS2005 after it was roundly 
rejected by developers large and small as wholly unacceptable.

"PoweSDR_IP"/svn/repos_sdr_windows/PowerSDR/branches/n4hy/VS2008


VS2003 PowerSDR would not support adequately support Vista, Vista64 and 
would die for the most part on Windows 7.  The new firewire drivers from 
the manufacturer of the interface in Flex products were moving on to the 
new OS's. TC is also a business that sells THOUSANDS of parts per 
month.  Flex is a little business that will sell a few thousand of their 
interfaces in its lifetime.  So, guess who has to follow and who leads.  
VS2008 was required to support this evolution.     The learning curve 
for VS2008 port of PowerSDR was "Bob did it and it works" and so the 
path forward for Flex was easy to see.

But Flex is NOT HPSDR even though many of us came here from Flex.  
PowerSDR is NOT the ideal vehicle for the support of HPSDR.   If it were 
not for Bill Tracey, KD5TFD,  there would be no support in my estimation 
even in PowerSDR.  Unless we can get a "Supplemental Bill" through the 
"popular coding congress",  that will remain the same.   It might even 
be argued that Bill's existence has stymied alternative development.  
But in my estimation,  we would have almost nothing to show if Phil 
Covington, Phil Harman, and Bill had not followed the path they did.

I suggest you join yet other mail groups,  dttsp-linux,  gnuradio, 
qs1r.  Flex user mail group is not useful for development.  After being 
presented with credible evidence and then seeing the change in 
perception about Flex that resulted from the removal of development 
discussion from that reflector,  it has become a list of "this doesn't 
work" or "how do I do this".  It is extremely valuable to users of Flex 
radio products,  and Flex radio denizens.  It is, in my opinion,  not 
that useful for HPSDR development.

java-sdr, sdr-shell, and dttsp are primarily linux executables and easy 
support is available for those platforms.  For what I consider to be 
different points of view,  Frank and I completely agree.

Bob

Frank Brickle wrote:
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> Take a look at java-sdr. You might be very pleased with what you see 
> there. In addition, all the development uses freely available tools, 
> is happening out in the open, and a major thrust right now is 
> perfecting the HPSDR capability.
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> 73
> Frank
> AB2KT
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> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Don N6MCE <pleasedon at gmail.com 
> <mailto:pleasedon at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     There was mention awhile back that PowerSDR was in process of a
>     ReWrite, and extension of PowerSDR should awate that rewrite.
>     What is the status of the PowerSDR ReWrite?
>     Does one subscribe to FlexRadio list to follow that effort?
>     My interest is HPSDR functionality.  Does it still makes sense to
>     expand PowerSDR functionality from that ReWrite code?
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>     Thank you all.
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>     Don N6MCE
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>     Frank Brickle wrote:
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>         In both these scenarios, the limitation observed in PowerSDR
>         is not on Mercury or the DSP: it's on the specific application
>         (PowerSDR).
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>         java-sdr and sdr-shell do not have the same limitations.
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>         73
>         Frank
>         AB2KT
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