Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Marty Kraimer <[email protected]> · Tue, 03 Feb 1998 14:10:10 -0600

Sally Schaffner wrote:
> 
> Subject:
> 
>         It should probably be a string because then things like
>         "1-0" or "1-0a" or "R313.1-0" can be used.
> 
> > 2) Should there be rules about how version numbers are assigned?
> 
>         It will be very difficult to come up with rules that will
>         be flexible enough to accomodate all types of EPICS
>         installations especially since they are so varied. It is
>         probably best to let each institution come up with versioning
>         rules that make sense for them.
> 
> > 3) What about all the existing record support modules?
> 
>         The field should default to something like "1-0" or
>         some other obvious baseline type nomenclature. Then
>         it can build from there.

Maybe it is better to just leave the string null to indicate never set.

Marty

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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