Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Thu, 13 Jan 2000 17:58:50 -0600

William,

I agree this would be a good idea, although I'm not totally convinced
about the 'keyword=value' part.  

When (or given current progress *if*) link support and the associated
device addressing changes gets implemented, addresses will be simpler to
convert if they're in the format typename(arg1, arg2, arg3, ...) where
arguments can be empty or terminal args omitted to default them.  You will
be able to use and parse string arguments yourself, but they then become
opaque to the higher level software.  Given the current vapourware status
of link support though you might want to ignore this completely for now.

In any case there's an unbundled version of the symbol support (partially
conveted for R3.14 though so it uses configure instead of config) in
$CVSROOT/epics/modules/soft/symb.  Please do any development here rather
than in $CVSROOT/epics/base.  These files have their old CVS version
history available in their new location.

- Andrew
-- 
Complexity comes for free, Simplicity you have to work for.

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System