[kepler-dev] [Bug 4282] - Duplicate of ptolemy.gui.Top

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http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4282


cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|FIXED                       |




------- Comment #13 from cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu  2009-09-10 13:45 -------
ptolemy.gui cannot depend on ptolemy.actor because Ptplot uses
ptolemy.gui.Top and does not ship with ptolemy.actor.

Could you back out the changes to Top in the ptII svn repository? 

I don't have a good workaround that will provide the functionality of adding
a menu choice to Vergil/Ptolemy.

If we remove ptII/src/ptolemy/gui/Top.java, then the entire ptII module can
go away.  The addition to Top is only necessary to provide access to the module
system if someone is running Vergil/Ptolemy (not Kepler) from the kepler build
system.
This functionality is not part of Vergil/Ptolemy, it is not documented and is
little used.  

The module system seems useful, and Top should be capable of having menu items
added to it.  Reworking this using Eclipse or Netbeans RCP is the right way
to go.  It seems to me that removing the ptII module would increase programmer
productivity.  It is confusing that we have a ptolemy module and a ptII module.