Hi tech-talk,
Ok, so this rapidly got out of hand! Before my execution let me say it was
never my intention to start a private discussion on a major development. I was
only asking for feedback from EPICS V4 developers about the possible use of a
planned module of EPICS V4 to help with problems I had heard about.
It was an extremely preliminary question, just for my own fact finding. So I
could learn about those issues, and then, you know, in years hence, maybe maybe maybe,
say stupid things on tech-talk.
Cheers
Greg
On 28 Nov 2011, at 19:13, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> On 2011-11-28 Ralph Lange wrote:
>> On 25.11.2011 09:31, Greg White wrote:
>>> PSI has undertaken to build a new EPICS gateway system from scratch. SLAC
>>> is also unhappy about the gateway. Can EPICS V4 help with that, say a
>>> gather service serving CA3?
>>
>> Do you have a more substantial and detailed gateway problem description
>> than "being unhappy about it"?
>>
>> Please do not underestimate the effort of creating a gateway
>> application. The current one swallowed several person years.
>> I'm not sure what you mean by "gateway system", but it does sound even
>> more complicated.
>
> I second Ralph's questions, and would also ask why the discussions about any
> problems that sites are having with the current gateway have not taken place
> in public on tech-talk? If the software's maintainers (i.e. Ralph and the
> other core developers) don't know about the problems they can't help you fix
> them.
>
> Personally I would much rather that significant development effort be spent on
> adding new functionality to the EPICS toolkit. Solving Not-Invented-Here
> problems dilutes the limited effort that we have.
>
> Having private discussions about major development work will result in the
> EPICS collaboration dying.
>
> Replies to tech-talk please.
>
> - Andrew
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> replacing it with something that almost works, but costs less.
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