Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

One more important point.

 

In R3.14 we took the important step of moving all of the OS interface layers into a

common area in libCom. In contrast, in the past I maintained some of them in with the

CA client library because the CA client library was the only part of base that was portable

at that time. The consolidated approach makes porting EPICS to a new OS easier.

 

Michael has in his published version of EPICS placed his derived version of my source code into

libCom. His derived code now occupies exactly the same niche in libCom that my original version

does in the decapitated CVS trunk.

 

Note that the Michael’s derived version neither currently works correctly nor makes any

attempt to conform to the interface that my work in the decapitated CVS trunk requires.

Some people may ask this question; what is the problem with what Michael has done, he

can maintain his version and Jeff can maintain his version and we can all be happy. The

problem with that approach is that porting EPICS is now harder because I would be

forced to maintain private copies of at least some of the OS interface layers in CA.

Something that I am definitely not in favor of doing.

 

Sorry about the interruption,