Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Carl Lionberger <[email protected]> · Fri, 04 Oct 2002 10:03:24 -0400

Andrew,

Please remove "my" vxStats link from the EPICS web page.  I am no longer supporting
it.

    Carl

[email protected] wrote:

> I see ...
>
> My guess is that your
> ResourceMonitor/Reboot/ASGcontrol/TimeOfDay/BootTime/IOCStatistics/BootDirectory
> module has definitely left the realm of soft device support. It has
> become a full-fledged application containing multiple record types,
> device supports, additional code, panels, databases and more. (This is
> what I see in the LBL version and you said it's been further developed
> since then.)
>
> In that case I would suggest taking it out of the Soft Support List and
> point to the original unbundled vxStats device support instead, which is
> kept and maintained at the APS.
>
> Should we open up a third category for "Portable Applications" which
> this might go into? Or is it a member of class "facility" within the
> "Soft Support List"?
>
> Anyway, if it stays somewhere in the EPICS web, I would really, really
> suggest renaming it to something different than vxStats, since this is
> the name of the unbundled device support that people will be looking for
> in the first place (since it used to be part of base).
>
> Cheers, Ralph
>
> >>>>> "Carl" == Carl Lionberger <[email protected]> writes:
>
>   > And there is a version we are using at SNS that has diverged and continues
>   > to do so; it is derived from the older lbl version.  The latest proposed
>   > change I've heard about is to display the boot directory.  We have a time
>   > readout and a record of the boot time as well.
>
>   > The LBL version on the ftp site is pretty old by now and probably shouldn't
>   > be pointed to anyway, although I don't really have much opinion on which
>   > should be pointed to instead.
>
>   >     Carl

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Carl Lionberger
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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