Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"J. Lewis Muir" <[email protected]> · Wed, 10 Aug 2016 10:53:45 -0500

On 08/10, Pete Jemian wrote:
> On 8/10/2016 12:34 AM, Paramveer Jain wrote:
>> I have installed EPICS 3.15 . is it good for beamline?
>
> Sure is

Hi, Pete!

Maybe I missed an announcement, but when did this become the case?

On the EPICS website, it lists the following release series:

  R3.16  Developer releases
  R3.15  Current releases
  R3.14  Stable releases
  R3.13  Frozen, still used in a few places
  R3.12  Older versions, fossilized
  R3.11  Pre-historic

I thought R3.14 was the recommended series for production use.  Has
this changed?  What's the difference between the "current" and "stable"
series?

Thanks!

Lewis

P.S. Playing netiquette police, Pete, you top-posted!  I've corrected it
in this email.  See [1] which is noted in [2].  Maybe no one abides by
this anymore, though, now that replies might come from a mobile device
which might default to top-posting (e.g. Apple's iOS Mail app)?

P.P.S. Playing netiquette police, Paramveer, you didn't provide a
subject in your email.  I've added a subject to this email.  It's nice
to include a subject in emails to the list so that readers can tell what
your email is about.  See [3] which is noted in [2].

[1] http://linux.sgms-centre.com/misc/netiquette.php#toppost
[2] http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/tech-talk/index.php
[3] http://linux.sgms-centre.com/misc/netiquette.php#subject

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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