[Clas_slow_control] error building hall b epics

[Mark M. Ito]

Arne et al.,

For the record I didn't give advice as to whether the license should be 
bought. I only gave advice on what to do if the decision was to not buy 
a license. It is true however that when I do give advice, it is always 
pretty good. ;-)

   -- Mark

On 02/22/2010 09:45 AM, Arne Freyberger wrote:
> Stepan,
>     Capfast is more or less a dead end.  OPS controls group still 
> maintains a license to support existing applications, but will migrate 
> away from capfast in the next few years.    I recommend doing what 
> Mark suggests, check the db files into cvs.  If in the future you want 
> to work with capfast, we can arrange an account on the OPS machines 
> for you to work.
>
>    Matt Bickley has more details on the capfast and options to replace 
> it.   But I always preferred working directly with the db files, so my 
> recommendation would be to do as Mark says.   Following Mark's advice 
> can get you far in life!
> Arne
>
> On 02/18/2010 08:20 AM, Mark M. Ito wrote:
>> Stepan et al.,
>>
>> I don't necessarily think that you need to get a capfast license. It
>> would certainly not hurt, and I don't think it breaks the bank, but it
>> might not be worth it; I don't know the answer to that question. Hall B
>> would survive with or without it in my opinion.
>>
>> But if you do _not_ get a license (as things stand now), the capfast
>> build commands in the makefiles should be removed and the .db files
>> checked directly into the CVS repository. That would then render the
>> capfast .sch files obsolete and they might go out-of-date. But if you
>> never get a capfast license again, it doesn't matter; you would then
>> have said goodbye to .sch files.
>>
>>     -- Mark
>>
>> On 02/17/2010 06:18 PM, Stepan Stepanyan wrote:
>>> Nerses,
>>>
>>> What we need to get capfast license.
>>>
>>> Stepan
>>>
>>> nerses at jlab.org wrote:
>>>> Dear Mark,
>>>>
>>>> after upgrade of clon01 we lost capfast license which was bind to old
>>>> clon01 cpu id.
>>>> In EPICS software there is VDCT
>>>> http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/wiki/index.php/VDCT_Status_Page
>>>> Which had claims about it's capability to convert capfast files 
>>>> VDCT xml
>>>> files.
>>>>
>>>> Nerses
>>>>
>>>>> No capfast? Hints?
>>>>>
>>>>> sch2edif -n analog_fcclassc8.sch
>>>>> gmake[2]: sch2edif: Command not found
>>>>> gmake[2]: *** [analog_fcclassc8.edf] Error 127
>>>>> gmake[2]: Leaving directory
>>>>> `/home/marki/epics/epicsBtest/app/analog_fc/db'
>>>>> gmake[1]: *** [all] Error 2
>>>>> gmake[1]: Leaving directory
>>>>> `/home/marki/epics/epicsBtest/app/analog_fc'
>>>>> gmake: *** [analog_fc.dir] Error 2
>>>>>
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