Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Marty Kraimer <[email protected]> · Tue, 20 Sep 2005 08:14:25 -0500

Ralph Lange wrote:

ky9 wrote:

Maybe a way to go forward is to make the latest
dataAccesss suite available,
then we could be productive by trying it,
finding shortcomings, maybe adding
wrappers that might be more convenient etc.

I agree.

While information hiding might be a good approach in OO programming,

it doesn't seem appropriate for collaborative development.

But I also remember that Jeff has been severely bashed several times

for comitting changes into the CVS repository that didn't compile

successfully on all supported platforms. For DataAccess there have

been complaints not too long ago (Aug 9th) about not all code in the

DataAccess repository compiling, the documentation not being current,

and test routines not matching the status of the libraries.

Demanding everything in the repository to be final, compiling and

working and demanding all the latest changes and versions to be in the

repository are contradictory positions that cannot be matched.

In the current situation - given the early and unfinished status of V4

and the separate location of the DataAccess repository - I would be

fine with the stuff in the repository being not perfect, partly

incomplete and not fully documented. I think we gain a lot more from

seeing the current developments than from having a ready-to-use module

at all times. If we tag versions that compile - maybe with a special

tag that denotes the last compiling or "stable" version - anyone who

needs something to compile against will still be able to get it.

To avoid misunderstandings I would like to have explicit agreement on

this approach before encouraging Jeff to commit his latest changes.

Asking him to commit unfinished work and then complaining about it

being unfinished would be not too fair.

What do you think?

Ralph

As far as I can tell the last update to dataAccess in the

epics/dataAccess CVS repository was last Feb.

I say at the stage V4 is at more frequest commits are better than very

infrequent commits.

I have been updating wikis at a frequent rate even thought they are

incomplete or have errors. One reason is that that is the only way I

know how to get a nice looking hard copy.

Marty

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System