Re: EPICS V7 and the return of dbReadTest and dbreport

[Michael Davidsaver via Tech-talk <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>]

On 10/18/19 7:52 AM, Luchini, Kristi L. via Tech-talk wrote:
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> I used dbReadTest and dbreport in the majority of my applications. This allowed me to check for database errors before booting my iocs, which save time and frustration. Unfortunately, these functions disappeared in R3.15 base but I understood that they were to return in V7. However, I haven’t seen these functions in V7 yet. Is there an ETA or an base version that we might expect the return of these very useful functions?

My personal solution to this is outside of Base.  dbdlint does syntax
checks and more.

https://github.com/epicsdeb/pypdb/blob/master/dbdlint.1.txt


dbReadTest was removed way back in 2012 (just saying).

Re-adding something like this in Base is imo. a good idea.  You're far
from the only person making typos in .db files.  However, someone needs
to put in the time to make it happen.  (aka. contributes welcomed)