Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

On Aug 2, 2021, at 3:43 AM, Simon Rose via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:

This is a pretty quick question, but is there an Application Developer's guide for EPICS base 7.0.*? The latest one that I can find on the the aps.anl.gov website is for base 3.16.2 (https://epics.anl.gov/base/R3-16/2.php) or 3.15.9 (https://epics.anl.gov/base/R3-15/9.php); None of the releases for base 7.0 seem to have a link to the appropriate Application Developer's Guide.

There is no Application Developers’ Guide for the EPICS releases after 3.16.2. We have been moving the documentation that was there into other places which are easier for the Core Developers to maintain, although that process isn’t complete yet (volunteers welcome, see below!).

Much of the text from the earlier chapters can be found in the Guides area on https://docs.epics-controls.org/ as updated by Timo. The later chapters which described specific APIs are being converted into Doxygen annotations to the code and most of the libCom APIs have been annotated, but not the database APIs. As a result I haven’t been publishing the Doxygen output, but it can be found for EPICS 7.0.6 at https://epics.anl.gov/base/R7-0/6-docs/doxygen/ (this was generated on a Mac, so in the File List it has headers under compiler/clang and os/Darwin which may be different to the Linux or other OS-specific equivalent files).

Offers to help continue the Doxygenation and to improve the usefulness of the results will be most welcome and can be done in your own time and at your own pace – please email me for instructions on getting started, and create a separate pull-request on GitHub for each new header file that you annotate.

HTH,

- Andrew