Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Jameson Graef Rollins <[email protected]> · Thu, 01 Mar 2018 08:01:47 -0800

On Wed, Feb 28 2018, Pete Jemian <[email protected]> wrote:
> At this time, MEDM is an orphan piece of software.  There are no 
> developers assigned to maintain it.  Fantastic that it still works and 
> is still useful.  Great job to its developers!  MEDM's true end of life 
> will coincide with that of MOTIF, which library it uses.  Recently, some 
> have made code changes in response to specific problems, but MEDM has no 
> maintainer.

Despite it's annoying limitations, MEDM has a lot going for it.  For
instance, the simplicity of the file format makes it easy to dynamically
generate screens, which is a very nice feature.

At LIGO we're pretty stuck with MEDM just because of the sheer amount of
work required to translate and test all of our existing screens.  This
problem exists no matter which new system we eventually decide to move
to, so a requirement for any new system is a good translator.

The activity on this thread is a pretty clear indication of the chaotic
state of things on the display manager front right now.  Hopefully the
community will start to coalesce into a few good projects with strong
backing.  Here's hoping that the various, almost indistinguishable QT
projects merge into one...

jamie.

ps: CSS is an abomination.

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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