Hi Eric,
On Wednesday 13 August 2008 08:05:08 Lecorche Eric wrote:
>
> We are presently considering the use of the Easy CA interface for future
> needs. A first but very simple test works fine and was quickly performed
> but we are quite frightened by the warnings within the Epics Web site :
Those warnings were meant to stop you from taking the step that you're
considering. EZCA's internal implementation is quite complex, and the
package does not have any unit tests so we don't know for sure that it is
still fully functional on more recent versions of Base (we certainly don't
run exhaustive tests of it against new EPICS releases, unlike the regular CA
code).
EZCA is not being actively maintained other than to ensure that it compiles;
the last functional change to the code was made in 1995, and at the APS we
changed most applications that were using it to call the native CA API
several years ago. It is entirely possible that we might stop building and
maintaining it completely within a year or two.
I would *strongly* discourage you from adopting EZCA, stick with the regular
CA API which is well documented and much more heavily used.
- Andrew
--
Talk is cheap. Show me the code. -- Linus Torvalds
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