[kepler-dev] Kepler alpha7

[Dan Higgins]

Edward,
    Thanks for looking at the release and the comments!

    Why do you think we are using version 3.0 of Ptolemy II? (If we are, 
then I made a major mistake!) The build was (supposedly) made using the 
head of the PTII CVS as of 10AM on 9 July. All the PTII code is the 
kepler.jar file. If you click on the 'Ptolemy Introduction' link in the 
intro.htm screen, we are linking to a screen that says "Ptolemy II 
Version 5.1-devel".
    Maybe we mislead you by not exposing all the latest models and 
directors in the 'Workflow Component' tree on the left? It was decided 
to only exposed four directors (CT, SDF, PN, and DE) so as to minimize 
confusion for non-CS Kepler users. I think the code for most of the 
actors in PTII 5.1 is included so most Ptolemy demos should work (if the 
user has Java3D installed; I didn't include it in the distribution).

    The first demo failure may have been due to you not being connect to 
the Internet when running? [I never checked that case and it seems to 
run OK on any machines that are connected.]

    I'll look into the other comments that you made and see if I can fix 
things. Thanks again.

Dan Higgins


Edward A. Lee wrote:

> At 09:44 AM 7/11/2005 -0700, Dan Higgins wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>     There are preliminary versions of the Kepler alpha7 installers in
>> the http://kepler-project.org/dist/ direcory. However, the web site has
>> not been updated with links to these new versions. I propose not to
>> create these new link for a few days to let you all check workflows of
>> particular interest. (I know that some do not work. :-(  ) Let me know
>> if you find problems or need the links added right away.
>>
>> Dan
>
>
> I just tried it out, and looks pretty good...
> Here are some immediate reactions:
>
> - This release appears to be based on version 3.0 of Ptolemy II.
>   This is two major releases behind!
>   5.0 has been released in beta, and will be finalized shortly...
>   There are quite a few features of 4.0 and 5.0 that would be quite
>   useful to this community, such as actor-oriented classes, the
>   dynamic dataflow (DDF) director, much better 3-D rendering actors
>   in the GR domain, lifecycle actors like ModelReference, etc.
>
> - Using the Windows installer, with all the defaults chosen, kepler
>   does not get put in the Start menu... Perhaps it should be by default?
>
> - The first demo (EML 2) fails with:
>   ptolemy.kernel.util.IllegalActionException: Error parsing the eml 
> package: Exception in DataTypeResolver.
>
> - The demos are not well sized and placed for a standard laptop screen.
>   Displays pop up off screen, and the workflows spill over to the right.
>   Also, some of them come up panned so that the whole demo is not 
> visible.
>
> - The third demo (GEON Map Workflow) gives: 
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>         at org.sdm.spa.WebService.fire(WebService.java:466)
>         at ptolemy.actor.AtomicActor.iterate(AtomicActor.java:266)
>        ...
>   This is probably because I was not on the net when I ran it,
>   but it seems there should be a friendlier error message...
>
> - Many of the plots are unlabeled (no title, no legend).
>
> - Some of the demos have no annotations.
>
> - The backprop model gives:
> java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no backprop in java.library.path
>         at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1517)
>         at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:788)
>
>
> Edward
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------
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