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1. SLC CAMAC Magnet control and SLC BPM data acquisition by XAL Applications. The SLC CA server does not presently support "set" operations, so there is not presently a way for XAL applications, which use EPICS Ca through JCA, to change the value of CAMAC magents. Possible solutions are to add set to SLC CA, or to change XAL applications to use AIDA, or to accept that XAL applications can not control SLC CAMAC magnets - that would be bad for orbit correction for instance, since most magnets in the linac will be SLC control system. Similarly, the SLC-aware-IOC and EPICS BPM acquisition API will allow both an XAL based application, or the SCP, to acquire IOC hosted BPMs, but are there "classical" SLC BPMs that must be acquirable by XAL applications.
   

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2. Windows filesystem.
   If we do require native execution on Windows that decision should be made clearly and early, and resources assigned to implement the common executable and configuration file distribution so that Unix and Windows running applications are in sync and see the same configuration files. Java Web Start and Eclipse update site technology may be places to find solutions. Use of Matlab from Windows for instance requires some well known Windows filesystem home for the matlab support files.
   

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3. XAL Plane Coupled modeling.
   The existing XAL probes for calculating R-matrices, run on either the X-plane or Y-plane and returns only a 2x2 matrix for each element. That is, it's uncoupled. This is reflected in the fact that only the Twiss parameters can be stored into an XAL file - it only contains uncoupled optics. It may be that XAL is in fact tracking a plane coupled system, but only returning the X or Y plane block-matrices - need to verify. So, if plane coupled orbit correction is important for us, we need to verify what XAL is doing, add at least 4x4 probe API, also probably also 6x6 tracking.
4. XAL Modelled acceleration and solenoid. XAL does not model acceleration completely, nor solenoid field see Questions
5. Archiver. Which one?
6. XAL file generation directly from Oracle. Is there a mechanism to flag items in the oracle db for inclusion in the lattice? Danger is people will edit the Oracle db to say move an item to a new z location or include a dummy bpm, and the lattice will change.
7. Scripting. It may be that the requirement for user-level scripting of complex operator procedures is a requirement that should not be minimized. Scripting user level procedures, for instance button-pushes on GUI applications, as opposed to control-system PVs, will be hard.
8. Matlab. It's expensive and we may be highly reliant on it especially at first (see Questions).

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