[kepler-dev] forwarded message from Vouk

[Christopher Hylands Brooks]

Sorry I missed this, I was away from email over the weekend and
earlier today.  Feel free to forward this on to llnl or ncsu.

In theory, building Ptolemy releases is fairly straightforward.
I have this somewhat complex makefile that uses GNU tar exclude 
files to build releases.  I'm not sure if the makefile would 
be of much use, it is in ptII/adm/gen-3.1, which is in the 
ptII CVS repository, but not in the release.

The makefile is a bit of a mess, as it supports multiple builds
on different machines.  I can see about cleaning it up.

Don't forget that we need to be careful about releasing the code in
the Ptolemy II CVS repository.  Depending on what Professor Lee says,
I'd prefer that no one with access to the Ptolemy II CVS source
repository ship any of the Ptolemy II CVS source without our ok.
In particular, the copyrights need updating, the code needs to be
reformatted and spellchecked etc.  I'm fairly comfortable having jar
files released that are based on the Ptolemy II CVS repository even
if the source is not clean.  This is not hard and fast, please check
with Professor Lee and/or myself before shipping files from the
ptII CVS tree.

In any case, it sounds like you want to release Ptolemy II3.0.2 with
new actors that you have written, so this is mostly moot.

I believe that we are planning on having some sort of release in
April of the Ptolemy II CVS tree, more news as it develops.

I really do not recommend Installshield.  I spent quite a bit of
effort with Installshield's Java product for Ptolemy II 1.0 in March,
2001.
The bugs I had are at: 
http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/ptolemyII/ptII1.0/installshield.htm#bugs

Presumably, Installshield has addressed many of these bugs.  However,
installing Sun's JDK (1.4.2 or 1.5) uses Installshield and for some
reason the install pauses for several minutes.  I'm not sure why.
I poked around and installed a patch from Installshield and it did not
help.

I recommend InstallAnywhere over Installshield, but if you get
InstallShield working for you, then great, go with it.

The Mac port is crippled by the lack of a right button to bring up
context menus.  Details can be found at
http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/ptolemyII/ptII3.0/mac.htm

I have access to a Mac OSX machine and am willing to spend a certain
amount of effort on testing things and such.  Basically, the Mac port
needs a champion.

-Christopher

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    From: Vouk <vouk at ncsu.edu>
    To: buttler1 at llnl.gov
    Subject: Re: [SDM-SPA] New distribution of Ptolemy for LLNL users
    CC: sdm-dev at sdsc.edu, sdm at renoir.csc.ncsu.edu
    Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 10:46:11 -0500
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    
    Meet me number is
    919-515-7153
    Phone rings (and keeps ringing) until at least two parties are on the call.
    NCSU will call in about 10-5 min earlier to insure link is up.
    In case of trouble, please call 919-515-7886 (my own phone) so
    we can synch.
    
    Thanks
    Mladen
    
    David Buttler wrote:
    
    > Hi Mladen,
    > A conference call would be good.  What number would you like me to 
    > call? In other news, we should be getting a new developer starting 
    > here on Monday to work on this project half-time.
    >
    > I hope the snow has not been too troublesome.
    > Dave
    >
    > Vouk wrote:
    >
    >> David,
    >>
    >> Yes. No problem.
    >> Let's do a teleconference on Monday  (say 9am your time)
    >> to nail down the details.
    >>
    >> Transfac is not quite here yet, but will be next week (actually
    >> Monday it may be available already)
    >>
    >> We have been snowed-out again so things are not moving
    >> as fast as we would like.
    >>
    >> No Mac distribution yet. It is not difficult to do,
    >> just different (probably a week to work out bugs
    >> the first time it is done)
    >>
    >> mav
    >>
    >>
    >> David Buttler wrote:
    >>
    >>> Hi,
    >>>
    >>> I would like to create a new distribution of Ptolemy for our users 
    >>> here at LLNL.  From our conversation a couple of weeks ago, it 
    >>> sounded like NCSU should be able to quickly create a new version 
    >>> using Install Shield.  The main reasons I would like a new 
    >>> distribution is to cover the following concerns:
    >>> 1) Include the new Transfac service
    >>> 2) Include the new Web Service actors, to provide access to both the 
    >>> services available at NCSU as well as other bioinformatics web services
    >>>
    >>> Is this possible to do? Have there been any problems with finding a 
    >>> Transfac replacement?
    >>>
    >>> As a side question, has there been any work yet on creating a Mac 
    >>> distribution? Do we have any estimates of how difficult it will be 
    >>> or when a Mac version may be available?
    >>>
    >>> Thanks!
    >>> Dave
    >>>
    >>
    >>
    >
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