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<[email protected]> · Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:47:55 +1000

Hello Ben,

I tried to download the beta version of seq from this link http://www-csr.bessy.de/control/SoftDist/sequencer/releases/seq-2.0.99.tar.gz (available from the new sncseq website) but the file does not exist. Could you please point to where the seq-2.0.99 is located? Thank you.
  Juan.

On 17/05/2010, at 9:15 PM, Benjamin Franksen wrote:

> Hello All
> 
> I would like to announce seq-2.0.99, a beta release for 2.1.0.
> 
> The warning I issued in a previous mail regarding the future of this 
> development branch is hereby happily *withdrawn*. By general consensus (of 
> all interested parties) it was decided that I take over maintenance and 
> further development of the sequencer. So, this branch *is* the new trunk, 
> and it *will* be maintained and (hopefully) further improved.
> 
> The new sequencer home is at
> 
> 	http://www-csr.bessy.de/control/SoftDist/sequencer/
> 
> The main differences to 2.0.98 are:
> 
> * converted the old Subversion repository at APS to darcs and re-based my
>  changes on this repo
> 
> [NOTE: This means you should discard any clone you made of the repository 
> and get a new copy (via darcs get), as it will not be possible to transfer 
> patches form one to the other without major conflicts. Sorry for any 
> inconvenience this might cause -- I decided it is more important that we 
> have a continuous history in the repo.]
> 
> * integrated the few changes that were made in this repo after 2.0.12
> * major rework of the documentation, convert docs sources to
>  reStructuredText, use `Sphinx`_ to generate new website from the docs
> * some minor cleanups, but otherwise no changes were made to the code
> 
> (Many thanks to the people who created Sphinx. What this tool does to some 
> drab (almost) plain text files is simply fantastic.)
> 
> .. _Sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
> 
> Please go ahead and test this beta release. I don't expect any serious 
> issues but one never knows... I am certainly going to do more testing myself 
> and continue to work on the manual. The idea is to release 2.1.0 as soon as 
> I am reasonably confident it contains no major bugs.
> 
> The manual might still contain major foul-ups. Don't hesitate to bring them 
> to my attention.
> 
> There remains some work to do before I can continue working on further 
> improvements: mainly integrating the changes made at DESY (the redundant IOC 
> stuff) and further bringing the manual up-to-date.
> 
> 
> Andrew, could you please update the links on the EPICS home page to point to 
> the new sequencer home?
> 
> Cheers & happy sequencing
> Ben

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Juan Carlos Guzman
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Australia Telescope National Facility
CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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