Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Jeff Hill" <[email protected]> · Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:53:49 -0600

> I agree.
> While information hiding might be a good approach in OO programming, it
> doesn't seem appropriate for collaborative development.

Sorry about the delays - hope to be ready to commit soon.

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralph Lange [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 3:27 AM
> To: ky9
> Cc: EPICS Core Talk
> Subject: Data Access / status of CVS repository
> 
> 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

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System