[kepler-dev] Best practice for custom actor development

[ian.brown@hsbcib.com]

Hi Ilkay,
      I had seen that link in my browsing but I was hoping there would be a
way to create an actor without having to compile the entire system from
scratch. The link implies that I need to set up a development environment
for both ptolemy and kepler and compile both from cvs. That's quite a lot
of work to add a block.

At the moment I am trying to understand the differences between kepler and
ptolemy and from that hoping to decide which is better suited. I am
favouring kepler at the moment because it seems better integrated with R
and MATLAB and that's what our analysts use. Looking at the integration of
these though, it would be reasonably trivial to achieve the same
integration in ptolemy.

Is Kepler an extension to Ptolemy or is it a variant. In other words, if I
chose Kepler do I sacrifice some options or functionality that are present
in Ptolemy and if so, what are thet?
Would the best route for me be to first generate the Actor for Ptolemy and
then migrate it to Kepler - I think I read somewhere that I could use
Ptolemy actors in Kepler.

Thanks for you time,

Ian

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