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

[CEL]

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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