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Subject: Re: Records not in Base
From: "David Dudley" <[email protected]>
To: tech-talk <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 14:32:09 -0600
Is there some specific reason that some of these other records *aren't* a part of base?
 
For instance, Archive seems pretty handy from reading the documentation, as does Timer, and especially ePID (which isn't in the wiki).
 
How did the specific records in base get -canonized- to be a part of base?
 
Is there any reason for these other records to *not* be considered for inclusion into base?
 
David

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi David,

On Wednesday 03 December 2008 11:08:30 David Dudley wrote:
> I see references to various records in the 3.14 wiki that are not a part of
> base.
>
> The ones I've seen so far are Pulse Counter, Pulse Delay, Pulse Train, and
> Transform.  There are probably more, but the Pulse ones in particular
> interested me for a project coming up.
>
> Transform, I see if a soft module extension, but where do I find the Pulse
> records?  Also, wouldn't it kinda make sense to at least indicate in the
> wiki page where the module is available from (perhaps not exact location,
> but "a part of base", or "from modules/soft", or something)?

The Pulse* records are rather hardware-specific; they were written for the
(now probably obsolete) Mizar MZ-8310 VME board, and are included in the
support for that module at
       http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/modules/timing/mizar/index.html

I don't particularly like the Record Reference Manual including record types
that are not part of the official Base release, but there is no effort
available to make the sweeping revisions that are really needed to clean it
up.  Tim Mooney added the Transform and sCalcout record types in 2006.  The
Pulse* record type documentation should definitely be removed from the Wiki.

If you would like an account for the wiki I would be *very* happy to give you
one, user-editing being a major purpose of such things...

- Andrew
--
Talk is cheap. Show me the code. -- Linus Torvalds


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