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Subject: Re: gateway
From: Andrew Johnson <[email protected]>
To: "EPICS tech-talk" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:13:59 -0600
On 2011-11-28 Ralph Lange wrote:
> On 25.11.2011 09:31, Greg White wrote:
> > PSI has undertaken to build a new EPICS gateway system from scratch. SLAC
> > is also unhappy about the gateway. Can EPICS V4 help with that, say a
> > gather service serving CA3?
> 
> Do you have a more substantial and detailed gateway problem description
> than "being unhappy about it"?
> 
> Please do not underestimate the effort of creating a gateway
> application. The current one swallowed several person years.
> I'm not sure what you mean by "gateway system", but it does sound even
> more complicated.

I second Ralph's questions, and would also ask why the discussions about any 
problems that sites are having with the current gateway have not taken place 
in public on tech-talk?  If the software's maintainers (i.e. Ralph and the 
other core developers) don't know about the problems they can't help you fix 
them.

Personally I would much rather that significant development effort be spent on 
adding new functionality to the EPICS toolkit.  Solving Not-Invented-Here 
problems dilutes the limited effort that we have.

Having private discussions about major development work will result in the 
EPICS collaboration dying.

Replies to tech-talk please.

- Andrew
-- 
Optimization is the process of taking something that works and
replacing it with something that almost works, but costs less.
-- Roger Needham

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