PyBOMBS ? The What, the How and the Why
For a few years now, GNU Radio has had its own “package manager”, PyBOMBS. Nearly a year ago, development was started to completely rewrite PyBOMBS, and we switched over to the new version a few months ago. Finally, the dust is settling for version 2 of PyBOMBS, it’s becoming more and more stable, and more widely adopted. Soon, we will be releasing PyBOMBS 2.1.0. As such, this is a great time to formally introduce the world to the new PyBOMBS.
What is PyBOMBS?
Package manager is really not a good term for this chunk of software — it’s a tool to assist in installing GNU Radio, out-of-tree modules and other software packages, from source or binaries, mostly system-independent.
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