Re: confusion with config dir in base

[Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov>]

Geoff Savage wrote:
> config    = EPICS base 3.13 and earlier
> configure = EPICS base 3.14 and beyond
>
> If you use auto completion of the directory name you go to the wrong 
> place if you are not careful.  You could complain about this choice but 
> the experts always have a good answer as to why the choice was made.

In this case (as in many others too) the reason for having both was for 
backwards compatibility.  It is only fairly recently that we have 
published versions of the APS extensions programs that use the R3.14 
build system (i.e. base/configure), so for a long time base/config was 
used for building most extensions programs and base/configure for IOC 
applications and support modules.

The base/config directory will be going away in the next major release 
of EPICS Base, so if anybody still has any extensions code that still 
uses Makefile.Host I suggest you consider converting it, although I'm 
not seriously expecting R3.15 to be released before 2009 at the earliest.

- Andrew
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