Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]> · Thu, 9 Sep 2010 00:57:48 +0200

On Donnerstag, 9. September 2010, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> I just committed all my and your changes that implement the "global"
> design and pushed them to the lp:~epics-core/epics-base/msi-join/
> branch on Launchpad.

Thanks.

> I'll be on vacation until next Wednesday now. 
>
> I don't like the keyword "scope", can you find some other word
> instead?  It has too much of a "computer-science theory" connotation.
>  Even "block" would be better, but that's not very descriptive
> either.

I'll try to come up with something that doesn't scare people off, is 
reasonably short, and still conveys the meaning. Any suggestions 
anyone?

> With the redesign I don't think this is going to be appropriate or
> ready for R3.14.12, 

I agree that the new 'global'/'scope' stuff should wait until the 
(re-)design is agreed upon and has been implemented and tested. Yet, I 
would like to have the fixes and compatible extensions go into 
R3.14.12. This would be mainly: (1) allow all sorts of empty lists, and 
(2) move the push/pop of scopes down into the {varname=value,...} lists 
(the current behaviour is very surprising IMO).

> so I'm not going be able to spend any more time 
> on it for a while.

Seems I finally have to make myself comfortable with bzr & launchpad. I 
suppose I have to create a branch on lp, separate out the agreeable 
stuff from the msi-join branch, put them on mine, publish it and and 
propose a merge. Have I got that right? Oops, never mind, I just found 
the wiki page that explains everything.

What is the schedule for R3.14.12?

Cheers
Ben

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System