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)
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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