Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Ben Franksen via Core-talk <core-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Sat, 13 Jun 2020 14:22:45 -0000

FWIW, I am with Dirk here. I would go even further: I do /not/ expect
any arbitrary existing database from 3.x to work with 7 without changes.
To the contrary, experience tells me that I /always/ need to tweak some
things when porting an application to a new (major) base version. For
instance some fields of standard records have gotten new types in EPICS
7 (or perhaps that was 3.14->3.15). And renaming a few records with
funny characters in them really isn't that much effort IMO.

This is why I think that for EPICS 7 we should define which characters
are allowed and that set should be as limited as acceptable by the
community in order to make future enhancements easier.

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Title:
  Constant arrary input links of size 1 don't work

Status in EPICS Base:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Constant input links in array form with 1 element don't work and
  return an empty array.

  Example:
  field (INP, [42])

  As soon as a comma is present, it works:
  field (INP, [42,])

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System