I certainly hope that EZCA is not abandoned, because there is a LOT of
code in interpreted languages such as IDL, Visual Basic (and Matlab?)
that depends on it. Those programs will certainly need some interface
layer between native CA and the scripting language, since they don't
directly support callbacks but do need to use CA monitors. Programs in
those languages do not use the "chid" but rather the PV names, and
depend on the hash table and caching of chids that EZCA handles.
Mark
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Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 9:21 AM
To: [email protected]
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Subject: Re: Use of Easy CA ?
Hi Eric,
On Wednesday 13 August 2008 08:05:08 Lecorche Eric wrote:
>
> We are presently considering the use of the Easy CA interface for
future
> needs. A first but very simple test works fine and was quickly
performed
> but we are quite frightened by the warnings within the Epics Web site
:
Those warnings were meant to stop you from taking the step that you're
considering. EZCA's internal implementation is quite complex, and the
package does not have any unit tests so we don't know for sure that it
is
still fully functional on more recent versions of Base (we certainly
don't
run exhaustive tests of it against new EPICS releases, unlike the
regular CA
code).
EZCA is not being actively maintained other than to ensure that it
compiles;
the last functional change to the code was made in 1995, and at the APS
we
changed most applications that were using it to call the native CA API
several years ago. It is entirely possible that we might stop building
and
maintaining it completely within a year or two.
I would *strongly* discourage you from adopting EZCA, stick with the
regular
CA API which is well documented and much more heavily used.
- Andrew
--
Talk is cheap. Show me the code. -- Linus Torvalds
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