Experimental Physics and
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rivers via Core-talk <[email protected]> · Tue, 23 Apr 2019 14:54:26 -0000

> Since the whole of synApps isn't likely to use EPICSv7 at least for the next year or more, there's not really a rush. The only IOC's going in that use it will be for specific areaDetector cameras and they don't really use the record types affected.

synApps modules are in production use on APS sector 13, and I believe also sector 16, with base 7.0.2.2 right now

Mark

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Keenan Lang via Core-talk <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 9:43 AM
To: Andrew Johnson
Subject: Re: [Merge] ~anj/epics-base/+git/base-7.0:fix-1824277 into epics-base:7.0

>Keenan Lang is working to release synApps 6.1 by the end of May (see his question at https://github.com/epics-modules/iocStats/issues/33#issuecomment-484995327), but I don't know if that is intended to support EPICS 7

I don't think this release will officially support EPICS 7, but I am definitely going to try to start getting all of our code compliant with newer versions. That's what ended up finding this issue as I was updating some of my own code for the changes to links.

>I understand this seems like a rush, but a synApps release strikes me as a good reason to try and get this fix included.

Since the whole of synApps isn't likely to use EPICSv7 at least for the next year or more, there's not really a rush. The only IOC's going in that use it will be for specific areaDetector cameras and they don't really use the record types affected.

>What is the bug?

Record types that are based off of calcout can no longer have a constant value written to their input fields and have the value of the correct data field change. For example, writing '5' to a calcout's INPA field no longer changes the A field to 5. This affects the calcout, aCalcout, sCalcout, transform, and luascript records.
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System