Re: Portable CA server?

[mcgehee@noao.edu]

John Winans writes:
> 
> I just want to mention that some, if not all, the device and driver support 
> modules would have to be rewritten if you expect these newly added records
> to be able to do any I/O.  And that looking at the modules supplied with 
> the EPICS distribution is not representative of the total volume of device
> and driver support currently written (at least for the APS anyway.)  I would
> bet that it would take 8 months just to get our device support stuff updated
> alone.
So there is a requirement for support of 'hard' record on a Unix box as well?
At Gemini we are principally looking at a CA server front end for a dynamic
collection of purely 'soft' records with the physical database being [TBD]
something commercial like SyBase.

I suspect that a CA server for 'soft' records only is an easier task.

Peregrine