EPICS Unbundled
From Release 3.14 onwards, EPICS base releases and distributions will only contain soft channel device support, and no drivers.
- Bug fix releases to Release 3.13.1 will retain the existing support.
While producing Release 3.14, APS will unbundle the base hardware support into separate <supporttop> collections related by bus type.
These collections will be placed in the CVS repository at APS in $(CVSROOT)/epics/unbundled/<supporttop>
APS will not maintain these collections other than to fix items we need, although we will continue to maintain the CVS repository.
Future maintenance, bug fixes and changes required by base must come from other sites and the collaboration working together.
- We want to continue to play our part, but not to do everything.
How will EPICS manage hardware support in the future?