Re: AppImages for EPICS base

[Pete Jemian via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

see also: https://anaconda.org/search?q=epics-base



On 11/15/2021 10:40 AM, Zhang, Tong via Tech-talk wrote:
> 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

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