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- Native support of OPC UA
- Support of TAI for timestamps
- integration with a database for more than 32 items history for an attribute
- Fully Java BACI support
- Fully Python BACI support
- Structure BACI properties (even if basic / with limitations)
- Simpler CDB: The CDB XML interface feels very clumsy and not well documented. Is there a way to give beginners a simpler file based CDB for testing which is maybe based on someting like YAML, TOML, JSON, INI or so? I guess the XML was chosen, so that the schemata can be validated, but is that something beginners even need?
- Add security features:
Features that could be improved
ACS shipping
- Slim-down ACS dependencies - e.g. Python, Python Libraries, ...
ACS & Python
- Can we get ACS to use the System Python instead of shipping their own?
- Use stdlib Python logging, while ACS just hooks an "ACSHandler" into the stdlib python
- Enumerations in IDL, they do not get properly translated into Python Enums
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- DDS (see yesterday)
- Not urgent, but alternatives to CORBA should be studied
- Old-style makefile
- Use of modern unit-test frameworks instead of TAT
Enhancing the ACS experience
- Better documentation
- Means of communication - Slack, Ticketing, ...
- More frequent community calls
- Better and more sophisticated examples