EPICS Documentation

This is the parent project for all EPICS related documentation on read-the-docs.

A good part of the EPICS documentation is dynamically created and hosted by read-the-docs, which acts as a CI system, building and hosting documentation from source or dedicated documentation repositories.

Read-the-docs offers valuable features that we use:

  • Keeps complete frozen documentation trees of all released versions under a permalink with the release number.

  • Keeps the documentation of the development tree (usually ‘master’) up-to-date and accessible using ‘latest’ as release number.

  • Switching versions is available through the web browser.

This parent project page is not directly linked from the EPICS web site. It creates the link to the canonical URL https://docs.epics-controls.org - links from the EPICS web site to the documentation should point to the subprojects using the canonical URL, e.g., ‘https://docs.epics-controls.org/projects/<project-slug>’

There are two kinds of subprojects:

  1. Code repositories: The documentation is created from comments in the source code (Javadoc or Doxygen) and separate documents (PDF, Markdown, restructuredText). Documentation trees of released versions are kept for reference.

  2. Documentation repositories: The repositories contain only documentation (like FAQs and How-To-Pages). Usually only one version exists (‘latest’).

Getting started

Process database

EPICS Related Software

The build system

PV Access details

Access security

Internal

Contributing

Training