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.
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