Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Zhang, Tong via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Mon, 15 Nov 2021 16:40:21 +0000

Dear Colleagues,

I've just published wheel packages for the EPICS base tools, i.e. caget, caput, softIoc, etc. onto PyPI (see the link below). They are AppImages built from EPICS base source code, tagged with the same release versions.

The intention is to use EPICS base CLI tools without building from source code at the target platform. AppImage is one of the solutions on Linux that could solve the binary distribution problem.

The simplest way to use it is: 'pip install epics-appimage', then a collection of EPICS CA/PV tools is available to use by typing the command name in the terminal.

I've tested on Debian and its derivatives, as well as CentOS 8, others released later than Ubuntu 16.04 should also work.

Here are the hyperlinks:
* PyPI project: https://pypi.org/project/epics-appimage
* GitHub project: https://github.com/archman/epics-appimage

Feel free to create an issue if you have any questions, thanks.

P.S. This work is also inspired by Michael Davidsaver's epicscorelibs project.

Tong

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System