Re: Questions about install

[Maren Purves <m.purves@eaobservatory.org>]

Thanks Andrew!
As my "fallback version" (using 3.13.8 and a vxWorks crate) of the
equipment monitoring for our new receiver (expected early next year)
is done and I never got the 3.15.5 softIoc fully working (probably
due to not fully understanding the asyn/streamdevice part) I'll
give 3.15.6 a try, hoping I can get the EPICS_BASE and INSTALL_LOCATION
sorted out rather than copying too much stuff from the source tree
into the install tree. And I really like having a
base/configure/CONFIG_SITE.local file rather than editing CONFIG_SITE.

Hoping nothing else breaks and takes away my time again :)

Maren

On 10/11/18 06:12, Johnson, Andrew N. wrote:
> Hi Maren,
>
> > On Oct 10, 2018, at 4:12 PM, Maren Purves <m.purves@eaobservatory.org 
> > <mailto:m.purves@eaobservatory.org>> wrote:
> >
> > should I start over with 3.15.6? - I started with 3.15.5 some
> > time earlier this year because it was labeled as the latest
> > stable release (little did I know that a bunch of other upgrades
> > in other areas would take a lot longer than anticipated - you
> > know how these things go).
>
> The functional differences between 3.15.5 and 3.15.6 (including a number 
> of changes pulled from the 3.14 branch) are described in the Release 
> Notes available at 
> https://epics.anl.gov/base/R3-15/6-docs/RELEASE_NOTES.html plus there 
> were a number of bug fixes that didn’t get added to that document (the 
> list is available at 
> https://launchpad.net/epics-base/3.15/3.15.6 towards the bottom of the 
> page should you wish to peruse it). The new stuff is mostly in the “nice 
> to have” category in that they make it easier to do certain things and 
> fix a few gotcha’s. I don’t know how much rework you would have to do, 
> but there are almost 2 years of updates included so I would recommend 
> using the latest if you can afford to do so.
>
> HTH,
>
> - Andrew