Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Zhong Ren <[email protected]> · Wed, 5 Sep 2007 11:03:26 -0500 (CDT)

I use both Newville's EpicsCA and the KEK version.  EpicsCA
used to have a problem that a crash happens every time the
application exits.  Please let me know if this is fixed.

Zhong

---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:44:24 -0400
>From: "J. Lewis Muir" <[email protected]>  
>Subject: Re: EPICS Python??  
>To: [email protected]
>
>On 9/5/07 1:57 AM, Heinrich du Toit wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> My question is simply.
>> Which one?
>
>Hi, Heinrich.
>
>"No. There is another." :-)
>
>I use EpicsCA, written by Matthew Newville:
>
>   http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~newville/Epics/Python/
>
>It has worked quite well for me and has good documentation.
>
>-lewis
>
>> On the web-site there are 2 different CaPython links. 
>> One from FNAL and one from KEK.
>> 
>> I've downloaded KEK so far. Mainly because of the
multi-threaded claim.
>> It seems to do the basics cleanly and easily. I even manage
to setup a
>> monitor fairly easy.
>> But I can't seem to find documentation on this.
>> 
>> Most of the other info is about the one from FNAL.
>> I don't know much about this. 
>> Accept that it has 2 parts caPython and caChannel.
>> 
>> So which one do I use?
>> Which one is supposedly newer?
>> Which one is more widely used by other people?
>> Any specific pro's cons about them?
>> 
>> And if KEK's - where do I find documenation? The
documentation inside
>> the library doesn't really tell you what todo and the
samples is way to
>> big to figure out what is going on.
>
>-- 
>J. Lewis Muir
>Software Engineer
>CARS/IMCA-CAT
>

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