Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"J. Lewis Muir" <[email protected]> · Tue, 13 Feb 2018 10:33:43 -0600

On 02/12, Anton Derbenev wrote:
> Any thoughts on the matter are also welcome.

Hello, Anton!

I think your project is a good, but I think even better would have been
to use pkgsrc <https://www.pkgsrc.org/> instead of Debian packaging.
It's probably too late for you to change, and I don't want to sound
critical, but with Debian packaging, you are only reaching sites and
users who use a Debian-based distribution.  (I'm sure there are tools
to convert .deb into whatever, but I doubt many in the EPICS community
are using them, and I don't know how seamless the experience would be.)
You're probably not reaching any site or user who uses CentOS, RHEL,
or any other non-Debian-based Linux distribution. pkgsrc, on the other
hand, is cross-platform, so if you had used it, you could be reaching
Linux, macOS, Windows (via Cygwin), and Solaris right now.

Regards,

Lewis

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System