Re: Use EPICS 7.0.* in production?

["Johnson, Andrew N. via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Hi Lewis,

No, the version numbering system evolved again when we released EPICS 7 and the online documentation hasn’t kept up to date with every aspect of the changes.

You could state that EPICS 7 has never reached production quality because we haven’t updated the documentation enough to describe it fully, but in that case it will probably never make it as the Core Developers have prioritized fixing bugs and adding features over updating every individual online page of documentation.

- Andrew

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From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> on behalf of J. Lewis Muir via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2024 10:37:59 PM
To: EPICS Tech-Talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Subject: Use EPICS 7.0.* in production?

 

Hello, Tech-Talkers!

Is EPICS 7.0.8 a developer release that should not be used in
production?

I ask because at

  https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://epics.anl.gov/base/index.php__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!ZTt7qznz4xlCwL0cLoMwgMnloSX9BTr-0EiUhx6uKrAeLVJE-vulKmvU6Lz7yyvTTtamLbmUGhW-AjdXhDOBZg$

it says in the "Versions and Numbering" section:

  The EPICS Version numbering system has evolved over the years so older
  version numbers may not mean quite the same thing as more recent ones,
  but any version with a zero component in the number such as 3.15.0.1
  was a developer release and should not be used for production systems.
  The first release in the 3.15 series that qualified for production use
  was version 3.15.1.

Since EPICS 7.0.8 has a zero component, does that mean it is a developer
release that should not be used in production?  Or is the wording of
the above not quite right, and what it really means is that there can
be a zero component in the series name (e.g., "7.0"), and only if
there's a zero component outside of the series name in the version
(e.g., "7.0.0.1") is it a developer release?

Thanks!

Lewis