Re: "@init handler failed" , "Record initialization failed" and "No reply from device within 1000 ms"

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

Hi Dirk,

On 2012-05-25 Dirk Zimoch wrote:
> Eric Norum wrote:
> > I'm actually kind of surprised that StreamDevice 2-5 (the latest, right?)
> > even works with ASYN from over five years ago.
> 
> With every change in StreamDevice I am very careful not to break
> compatibility with earlier versions of asyn and base. You can run the
> current StreamDevice version with asyn 4-6 and base 3.14.7 (or even
> 3.13.9 with some tricks) if you like. Sometimes I wish other people
> would spend that effort too.

I regard new features and bug fixes as an incentive to get people to upgrade 
their IOCs to newer versions of Base.  Otherwise we have to continue to 
support ancient versions of the code, and they keep hitting old bugs.

- Andrew
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