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Subject: RE: Recommended display manager?
From: "Dalesio, Leo" <[email protected]>
To: "Kasemir, Kay (ky9)" <[email protected]>, "Carl Schumann" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:29:26 -0400
After laughing really hard at Kay's comment (mostly out of pain) I would say that there are three that are something to consider:
1) edm - mature, tested. nice edit features, good functionality and well supported by John Sinclair who has done a fantastic job from the start. If you need to deploy something in the next 6 months, I would use this one.
2) CSS - goal is to create a more integrated operator environment. Great progress and something to investigate. At NSLS II, we are installing and investigating this one. We go operational in 3 years. DESY need to deploy it in the near future. If you are a fan of Eclipse - this is your baby
3) CAML - just out of the gate and perhaps a compliment to 1 and 2 - this is a web based display manager as I understand it.
4) Because of the nature of this topic 3 choices really means N. It should be clear that these are all views on what is going on. If you want a more interactive display the you need to look at the other possibilities - and if you want a more application specific display (physics applications or beam line) then you need to look even further.
 
Jeff Hill said just yesterday that it would have been nice to have standardized on an ASCII representation - then at least the displays would have been upwardly compatible. As it is, I think that there are a number of tools to convert the ascii from display managers all the way back to EDD/DM through MEDM / MEDM2 to EDM. 
 
Kay was most accurate......
Bob

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From: [email protected] on behalf of Kasemir, Kay (ky9)
Sent: Wed 8/20/2008 11:11 AM
To: Carl Schumann; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Recommended display manager?



[email protected] on 8/20/08 11:06 :
> Is there a consensus within the EPICS community about which display
> manager new installations should be using?
Yes, there is. New installations usually write a new one.

-Kay





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