Re: EPICS 7 Documentation or just README.examples for the V4 part.

[Michael Davidsaver <mdavidsaver@gmail.com>]

On 12/01/2017 02:51 AM, Timo Korhonen wrote:
> Hi Ernest,
> 
> Michael's instructions in 
> https://github.com/epics-base/pva2pva/blob/master/documentation/mainpage.h <https://github.com/epics-base/pva2pva/blob/master/documentation/mainpage.h#L53>

This is still in progress.  I'll be adding some more explanation, examples, and a reference of group configuration options.


> give a pretty good start. Following those instructions you can build an IOC with PVA enabled (with qsrv, to be more precise.)
> 
> The image demo (iocimagedemo in pva2pva module), especially loading image.db gives IMO a pretty good idea how to start building IOCs with PVA usage (I prefer to use "PVA" than "V4" in this context.)
> 
> A more consistent documentation is TBD (maybe WIP) as far as I can tell. 
> There is a lot of material available about PVA development but that should be integrated into the EPICS 7 context, to have it all in one place. 
> In the mean time, http://epics-pvdata.sourceforge.net/informative/developerGuide/developerGuide.html might be good reading, although it is pretty much programmer-oriented.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Timo
> 
> 
> 
> From: <core-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov <mailto:core-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov>> on behalf of "Williams Jr., Ernest L." <ernesto@slac.stanford.edu <mailto:ernesto@slac.stanford.edu>>
> Date: Friday 1 December 2017 at 07:16
> To: EPICS core-talk <core-talk@aps.anl.gov <mailto:core-talk@aps.anl.gov>>
> Subject: EPICS 7 Documentation or just README.examples for the V4 part.
> 
>     Hi Andrew,
> 
> 
>     Is there any user documentation and application developer's guide for EPICS 7?
> 
>     Oh, indeed I could use the App Dev guide for EPICS 3.16.1
> 
> 
>     How about for the V4 part of EPICS 7?
> 
>     I poked around in the modules area looking for some user oriented documentation.
> 
>     Also, are you planning to have some support in <BASE>/templates to show off  V4
> 
>     usage?
> 
> 
>     Such as,  "makeBaseV4"
> 
> 
>      /usr/local/controls/epics/base/base-7.0.1-rc1/templates
>     [ernesto@localhost templates]$ ls
>     makeBaseApp  makeBaseExt makeBaseV4
> 
> 
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
> 
>     Ernest Williams
>     Dept. Head, Advanced Control Systems
>     Advanced Instrumentation Research, Technology Innovation Directorate
>     SLAC National Laboratory, Stanford University
>