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@inproceedings{rose:icalepcs2023-mo4bco05,
author = {S.C.F. Rose and D.H.C. Araujo and L.A. Mello Magalhães and A.L. Olsson},
title = {{Apples to Oranges: A Comparison of EPICS Build and Deployment Systems}},
% booktitle = {Proc. ICALEPCS'23},
booktitle = {Proc. 19th Int. Conf. Accel. Large Exp. Phys. Control Syst. (ICALEPCS'23)},
eventdate = {2023-10-09/2023-10-13},
pages = {205--209},
paper = {MO4BCO05},
language = {english},
keywords = {EPICS, site, LLRF, controls, MMI},
venue = {Cape Town, South Africa},
series = {International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems},
number = {19},
publisher = {JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland},
month = {02},
year = {2024},
issn = {2226-0358},
isbn = {978-3-95450-238-7},
doi = {10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-MO4BCO05},
url = {https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/mo4bco05.pdf},
abstract = {{ESS currently uses two different systems for managing the build and deployment of EPICS modules. Both of these use modules that are packaged and prepared to be dynamically loaded into soft IOCs, based on the require module developed at PSI. The difference is the deployment: For the accelerator, we use a custom utility to define and build an EPICS environment which is then distributed on a global shared filesystem to the production and lab networks. For the neutron instrumentation side, in contrast, we use conda to build individual EPICS environments for each IOC, where the underlying packages are stored on a shared artifactory server. In each case, the goal is to provide a repeatable and controllable mechanism to produce a consistent EPICS environment for IOCs in use at ESS. The difference (other than the tools and storage) is in some sense philosophical: should a software environment be defined at build-time or at run-time? In this presentation we will provide an overview of some of the challenges, contrasts, and lessons learned from these two different but related approaches to EPICS module deployment. }},
}