[kepler-dev] [Bug 4290] - Separate the GUI from the execution engine.

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http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4290


cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Severity|major                       |enhancement




------- Comment #2 from cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu  2009-08-18 08:30 -------
Ptolemy has always made a distinction between the execution engine and
the GUI.  Clearly defining any issues in Kepler with this separation would
be useful.  I believe one issue surrounded using graphical actors such as
the plotter, but I don't fully understand the details.

Also, defining a measure of success for "Separate the GUI from the execution
engine" would help.  The Triquetrum project has worked on some of
the separation of the various pieces of the execution engine.  For example,
we have:
kernel
moml
actor
actor.lib

and then start to add the domains.

For example, not all users of an execution engine will necessarily want moml.
I'm interested in working on this, and after Ptolemy II 8.0 is out I'd like
to reorganize the Ptolemy packages to better support modularization.

I'm marking this as an enhancement, and am not so sure this is a requirement of
2.0.0.