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"Wang Xiaoqiang" <[email protected]> · Fri, 8 Jul 2011 18:12:13 +0200

Thanks Andrew.

The name is carefully chosen so that it does not clash with existing python modules in pypi database and googlecode. Unfortunately, pycas is so popular that at least two projects take this name! Since this module is only visible inside python to portable channel access server, the confusion is negligible I hope.

I would consult PSI office and complete the copyright statement.

Xiaoqiang

在 Jul 8, 2011，5:59 PM，"Andrew Johnson" <[email protected]> 写道：

> Hi,
> 
> On 2011-07-08 Wang Xiaoqiang wrote:
>> Although I have given two slides mentioning it during EPICS meeting at
>> ITER, it had not been brought further to public afterwards and it had
>> even not a proper module name.
> 
> Your choice of acronym is unfortunate for those of us with a longer history in 
> the EPICS community.  To avoid confusion with the original Portable CAS (which 
> was often referred to as pcas) I'm going to refer to this project with the 
> name PyCAS on the EPICS website.  I don't know whether you can/would want to 
> change the project's name at Google Code though, that's up to you.
> 
>> Now the source is hosted at http://pcas.googlecode.com. Three examples
>> are given to show its capabilty,
>> http://code.google.com/p/pcas/wiki/UserDocuments. The issue tracker is
>> at http://code.google.com/p/pcas/issues/list.
>> 
>> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanzhai
>> [2]
>> http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/modules/soft/asyn/R4-12/asynPortDriver.html
> 
> Thanks, this looks very interesting.
> 
> According to the Google Code project home page your code is licensed under the 
> GPLv3, although the files themselves make no mention of the license or who 
> owns the copyright.  I would have expected PSI to require you to include a 
> Copyright notice in at least one file ― the standard practice for Free/Libre 
> and Open Source Software is to put a notice of the copyright owner and date in 
> each file, and include the text of the license in a separate file, often 
> called COPYING.  There are instructions on how to do this at the end of the 
> GPL license files.
> 
> - Andrew
> -- 
> Optimization is the process of taking something that works and
> replacing it with something that almost works, but costs less.
> -- Roger Needham

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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