This repository contains the LaTeX text of the EPICS Application Developers Guide, and older versions of the Channel Access Protocol Specification. The master version of the latter has now been converted to a restructured text file in the specs directory of the epics-docs repository on GitHub.
The Makefile in this directory generates both HTML and PDF versions of
the Developers Guide and can rsync them into a directory set by the
INSTALL_DIR variable. make all will generate the files, make install does the installation. Note that the Makefile was developed to
run on RHEL-7 Linux with a copy of TexLive installed (see the
LATEX_DIR variable to configure that).
There are 3 branches in this Git repository, related to the release series of the EPICS Base software. The 3.14 branch is no longer being updated since that branch of Base is no longer being supported. The 3.15 branch may continue to be updated while that branch is supported. The master branch contains some additional documentation that was developed for the 3.16 branch of Base, but that branch is now closed. There is no 7.0 branch of this repository as the text here is being converted into other documentation formats and moved elsewhere.
- Andrew Johnson, May 2020