Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Johnson, Andrew N." <[email protected]> · Fri, 12 Oct 2018 18:55:05 +0000

On 10/12/2018 01:06 PM, Hinko Kocevar wrote:
> To avoid hand editing the RELEASE files each time I have an IOC to
> build, I've coded a python script that takes a 'recipe' for
> base/module/IOC containing some meta data, including top package
> dependencies, and delivers a set of built packages - found while
> resolving deps at compile time.

There is a tool called Sumo (or EPICS-sumo) that was developed for BESSY
and published by HZB which automates the process of generating RELEASE
files and building dependent modules automatically. It takes a bit of
work to get started with it, but it seems to work very well and I am
proposing this as the basis for the APS Upgrade's IOC builds.

    http://epics-sumo.sourceforge.net/index.html

There are a number of enhancements that could be added by the community
including adding a GUI for easy module configuration changes.

- Andrew

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System