[kepler-dev] moml actors

[Shawn Bowers]

BTW, so as to head off the answer "These are in Bugzilla" -- I think it
would be nice to have these listed at a "higher level" and in a human
readable way in an email so we can respond to them, etc ...

-shawn



On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Shawn Bowers wrote:

>
> All,
>
> The current UI re-design effort -- it was my belief anyway -- was to have
> an "Export as Kar" menu option; a much different task than saving to the
> library, which doesn't require using any archiving file format.
>
> I think it would be good if either Laura or Matt could respond in terms of
> what the status is of the various redesigns that were to take place within
> Kepler. Where is this project at, what is the status, and how should we
> proceed on these issues?  It seems that much of this effort has stalled --
> but there is still many of the needed functionalities missing?  It might
> be good if Laura or Matt, you could list what needs to be done and the
> priority/schedule for these items ...
>
> -shawn
>
>
> On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Dan Higgins wrote:
>
> > Norbert,
> >     Good question! Strangely enough, a few months ago, the version of
> > 'Save in library' actually wrote a kar file with all the moml code in
> > text/xml inside the kar archive wherever you wanted it. Then the 'save'
> > got changed to write it into .kepler in a non-human-readable
> > serialization format. This made the' Save to Library' simpler, but we
> > lost the ability to save as a kar anywhere the user wished. We need to
> > add a Save as Kar menu item (that once existed), but the guys who
> > originally wrote this stuff are currently not working on Kepler.
> >
> >     The other option is the use the 'Upload to Repository' menu that
> > shows up when you right click on an existing actor (including Moml
> > actors). After uploading, you can then visit the Kepler repository at
> > http://library.kepler-project.org/
> > and then  download and use the File/Import Archive (KAR) menu to import
> > to Kepler. (I don't really know if all this is currently working, but it
> > supposed to be a way to sharing actors.
> >
> > Dan Higgins
> > NCEAS/UCSB
> >
> > Norbert Podhorszki wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I would like to know how can I create actors from kepler workflows, that
> > > show up on the left side.
> > >
> > > One option is the 'save in library', which puts the new actor into
> > > ~/.kepler. This is not my favourite choice because
> > >   - I delete ~/.kepler a couple times a day...
> > >   - I would like to have those actors in cvs as the java actors
> > >
> > > What is the 'official' way to register an actor which is not a java class
> > > but a moml workflow? Do you have materials on this howto? Or an
> > > existing example?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Norbert
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> >
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