Re: EPICS 7 side-by-side with EPICS 3/4

[Timo Korhonen via Tech-talk <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>]

Hi Ray,

 

An EPICS 7 IOC can run perfectly well side-to-side with older IOCs; you may not be able to use all the new features depending on how your other infrastructure looks like, but otherwise I do not see any big issues with that.

If you have a (version 3 type) record-based soft IOC, that should run on EPICS 7 without big issues, at least if you do not use custom drivers or such.

 

But are there some specific things that you would like to do with the EPICS 7 IOC?

 

Best regards,

 

Timo (ESS)

 

From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov> on behalf of "Gregory, Ray via Tech-talk" <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>
Reply to: "Gregory, Ray" <gregoryrd@ornl.gov>
Date: Wednesday, 5 October 2022 at 19:58
To: "tech-talk@aps.anl.gov" <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>
Subject: EPICS 7 side-by-side with EPICS 3/4

 

Hi,

 

At our ORNL neutron beamlines, we normally deploy EPICS 3.14.12.6 and EPICS 4.6.

 

I would like to create an EPICS 7 IOC to run side-by-side with the EPICS 3/4 IOCs we are normally running.

 

How can I do this for a typical database-based soft IOC? For a Python IOC?

 

Thank you,

 

Ray

 

Ray Gregory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory