[kepler-dev] GUI menu File=>Save and File=>Save As options replaced

[Derik Barseghian]

Hi all,

The purpose of this email is to bring attention to a recent change to  
the Kepler GUI -- the removal of the File=>Save and File=>Save As menu  
options. The Kepler GUI user now only has one option for Save: Save  
Archive. This saves the workflow (still in xml format), and any other  
relevant artifacts and information, into a KAR file. A KAR is a jar  
file--a java archive that aggregates many files into one. This change  
is currently only in the developer (svn) version of Kepler, but is  
slated to be released with Kepler 2.1, so please let us know soon if  
and why you object. For more information about why this change was  
made, please see this thread:
http://mercury.nceas.ucsb.edu/kepler/pipermail/kepler-users/2010-August/002307.html

The Open menu items have not changed, so workflows previously saved as  
singular xml files may still be opened.

Thanks,
Derik