[kepler-dev] PtolemyII 5.0beta release

[Dan Higgins]

Hi All,

    Actually, things are a little more complicated than just finding 
workflows. Some Ptolemy actors are in the compiled Kepler jars but not 
in the Kepler library. As pointed out by Christopher, the Python actor 
is in this category because it greatly delayed the first time startup of 
Kepler (because all actors in the library are loaded at startup).  
Workflows using these actors should run in Kepler.  But some Ptolemy 
actors are not included in the kepler.jar file, depending on how you 
compile the Ptolemy source. If you use the 'ant ptolemy' command (in 
Kepler), the ant build file 'build-ptolemy' is used and if you look at 
its contents, it explicitly excludes certain Ptolemy source directories 
where we had compilation problems. This includes the jai directory were 
the Java Advanced Imaging source is included. You can look at the 
exclusion list to see what actors have been skipped. In general, 
anything that might cause problems for some users was removed (and not 
everyone had the JAI support code (which is platform specific) 
installed). So there are some Ptolemy workflows that will not run in the 
alpha6 release of Kepler.

    Until now, (as far as I know) no Kepler user had asked for us to 
include JAI in the Kepler distribution, That can change, but it does 
cause installation difficulties.

Dan

Shawn Bowers wrote:

>Carlos,
>
>We ultimately want to set up a uber-repository for all of the kepler and 
>ptolemy actors and workflows ...
>
>But currently, we only include a subset of those by default in the 
>"library".
>
>However, you can, just like in Ptolemy, open any moml file in kepler -- 
>so if you know the path to those files in ptolemy, you can also open 
>those in kepler.  In fact, you can also add them directly to the 
>hierarchy as well (a little more work, but possible).
>
>
>shawn
>
>
>
>Carlos A. Rueda wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi Dan, cvs admin, and all,
>>
>>I would like to start using some Ptolemy actors that are based on
>>the Java Advanced Imaging system (JAI), but they are not included
>>in the released kepler 1.0.0alpha6. Perhaps the current CVS version
>>of Kepler already includes them but I apologize I have forgotten my
>>cvs password (username: rueda)
>>
>>So my questions are:
>>
>>1- Is the current CVS updated with the new actors in PtolemyII 5.0beta,
>>    particularly those related with JAI?
>>    If not, i) is there a time frame for that?, or ii) how can I instruct
>>    kepler to load them?
>>
>>2- Would the cvs admin please contact me about my password?
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>carlos
>>
>>
>>Dan Higgins wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Hi All,
>>>
>>>   The Ptolemy project has released version 5.0beta of PtolemyII at
>>>
>>>http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/ptolemyII/index.htm
>>>
>>>This link is to the source code version which can by used to build 
>>>Kepler. You might want to use it instead of trying to get the CVS 
>>>version of Ptolemy. It seems to work fine with the current Kepler CVS 
>>>code; it won't reflect the latest changes in Ptolemy code but it is 
>>>probably more stable and doesn't have a lot of experimental stuff that 
>>>the Ptolemy CVS head does. You can also see the latest changes made in 
>>>Ptolemy
>>>
>>>Dan
>>>
>>>      
>>>
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