[kepler-dev] PtolemyII 5.0beta release

[Bertram Ludaescher]

Thanks Dan for the detailed clarification!

Some comments below..

Bertram

Dan Higgins writes:
 > 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) 

yikes.. what ever happened to the much advertised platform
independence of Java ;-)

 > 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.

I guess we just have the first Kepler user asking for it.. 

BTW, why is the subject line "beta"? I guess it must be around the
corner :-)

cheers


 > 
 > 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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