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Subject: Re: alarm handler on base 3-14-11
From: Andrew Johnson <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:42:35 -0500
On Monday 28 September 2009 03:56:32 Dirk Zimoch wrote:
> Why are there always such unnecessary incompatibilities in new versions of
> EPICS? Life would be so much easier if working EPICS software could
> continue to work with later versions (at least of with same major/minor
> release).

EPICS Base is Open Source software, we make it available to anyone without 
charge and welcome help with its development.  The best way to improve the 
quality of the releases would be to get involved with testing the pre-release 
versions and suggest modifications or patches before the final releases are 
made.  Think of the effort required as a Software Maintenance Contract payment 
to the core development project; it's much cheaper than maintaining it all by 
yourself.

The source code changes required to build with 3-14-11 are compatible with 
earlier 3-14 versions of Base, once you've made them your code should still 
build with previous versions.  Personally I regard minor source code fixes 
like these as occasionally necessary to improve software quality overall.

- Andrew
-- 
The best FOSS code is written to be read by other humans -- Harald Welte


References:
alarm handler on base 3-14-11 Patrick Thomas
RE: alarm handler on base 3-14-11 Mark Rivers
Re: alarm handler on base 3-14-11 Dirk Zimoch

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