Improve Build / Cleanup README #1
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Added a standard configure directory (similar to the one used in the ca-gateway repository) for easier builds. Modified the Makefile to find the configure directory.
- Renamed README to README.md for better display on github. - Removed old README.1st file that seemed to be irrelevant - Added a section Build with build instructions for this extensions
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Hi Simon, In principle I'm fine with this, thanks for submitting it. However could you please move the source files and their Makefile which builds everything into a Thanks,
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Using now the default |
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Is the plan that all extensions will switch to this new packaging, and the extensions/configure directory will no longer be used? I seem to be the maintainer for ezcaIDL and EzcaScan so should I be doing this? |
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Hi Mark,
I think that's probably the best course of action. Different sets of tools can still be installed into a common The original extensions tree was designed for X11 and Motif applications but it doesn't really work for building programs that use newer toolkits like Qt, so more recent tools haven't been using it at all. I would like to drop support for the extensions configure area which combines many different sets of build rules, but I don't have time to help converting the existing tools myself. Thanks,
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It looks like Simon moved the source files back out of the new src/ directory again in commit 6bd7614 instead of creating a new Makefile in that directory to do the actual build. I don't like the current file structure, it just needs a bit more work after that commit to get it to build properly — I'd be happy to answer questions about what needs doing.
Improve the build by adding a default
configuredirectory (similar to whats in https://github.com/epics-extensions/ca-gateway)Cleanup of the README