Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Williams Jr., Ernest L." <[email protected]> · Tue, 24 Sep 2013 07:25:10 -0700

Hi everyone,

How might one use the same scheme to supply a version string to reflect the version of a software module?

Does EPICS Toolkit support this for Driver/Device Support?

Would also be nice to have a version string supported for IOC applications as well.

Can this be done in a standardized way such as dbior()?

For example, EPICS BASE uses:
"$EPICS_BASE_RELEASE/configure/CONFIG_SITE"
Variable NAME = EPICS_SITE_VERSION

Then at the ioc shell  coreRelease() will print out the version string.

So, for an EPICS module maybe:
<moduleName>Release()

For an IOC Application:
<iocAppName>Release()

This would be very useful and can also be place in a PV :)

Anyone already doing this?  If so, can we get it standardized as part of the EPICS BASE and templates?

Cheers,
Ernest

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System