Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:12:11 -0500

On Tuesday 20 April 2010 07:21:47 Dirk Zimoch wrote:
>
> Who uses aai/aao and which device supports exist?

The APS does not use the aai/aao record types, which is one reason why they're 
not in a better state.  There is no documentation for them in the record 
reference manual, no device support in Base as you said, and no tests in the 
test suite.  They were originally created by Dave Barker at CEBAF and added to 
Base by Johnny Tang in October 1994.  There have been a few commits to the 
files since then, but usually only when we were making parallel changes to all 
of the record types.

Basically these record types have not been maintained since they were added to 
Base almost 16 years ago.  There was a certain amount of outcry a while back 
when I mentioned the idea of deleting them, but nobody has stepped up to fix 
them, and unless someone does they will get deleted before any future 3.15 
release.  If your site needs them and already understands their limitations 
and bugs it won't be hard to create a new home for them in a support module.

- Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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