Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Dalesio, Leo `Bob`" <[email protected]> · Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:13:17 -0700

Hi Matt and Core guys,
 Is it necessary to have the EPICS core build on HP? I suppose the issue is the Channel Access client - and that must build there as there are no cross-compilers?
How many sites are still using HPUX and when will we stop supporting it? It seems a major drag on resources and schedule. Is it?
Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Bickley [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 10:28 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: EPICS Tech-Talk
Subject: Re: [Fwd: release 3.14.8?]

Andrew Johnson wrote:
> We discussed this over on the core-talk list, and given the extra work 
> the developers have to do coming up to the EPICS Collaboration and 
> ICALEPCS meetings we're not planning a release before then.  I'm 
> currently hoping we'll be able to release version 3.14.8 in mid to 
> late October, once everyone is back from Geneva.  We can never be 
> completely sure how long it will take once we get started because the 
> developers don't all work on the same architectures, and getting 
> things working on HPUX is generally the most tricky.
> 
> Would all sites out there running or planning to run R3.14.x on HPUX 
> please make sure that Ralph Lange knows that you're still relying on 
> his porting work.  You should be aware that we'll definitely be 
> dropping HPUX support completely for the R4.x series, and if *nobody* 
> reponds to this request we might even drop it sooner.

We are using R3.14.x on HPUX at Jefferson Lab.  While we are planning our transition to another architecture (either Sun or Linux), we will be using HP with 3.14 for some time.  I hope that the EPICS core group will continue its 3.14/HP support.  As we get further into our planning we'll develop a transition schedule and share that with the EPICS core developers so that information can be incorporated into the development and support plans.

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