[kepler-dev] [Bug 4702] KAR to module conversion utility

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http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4702

--- Comment #4 from David Welker <welker4kepler at gmail.com> 2010-02-11 04:13:10 PST ---
I should point out that there is a less ambitious interpretation of this
feature request. And that is, not that we are developing a tool that allows
Kepler to automatically load 1.0 KAR files that contain jars but that we are
developing a utility that simply turns such KARs into modules. Such modules
would then be tested in the context of a particular modules.txt file by a
developer, who would then distribute an appropriate suite containing the new
module. But I do not think there would be any justification for this less
ambitious developer-centric tool, unless there existed a significant number of
1.0 KAR files that distribute their own jars. After all, the only work that
would be saved in that case is the work it takes to extract the jar and put it
in the lib folder of a new module, while putting the actual workflow or actor
in an appropriate location within the module. The amount of work that it would
take to learn the command that performed this task for you would be about the
amount of time it would take to do it manually for one such 1.0 KAR file with
jars. So, unless someone is facing a task of having a lot of 1.0 KAR files with
jars into separate modules, I do not think there would be any justification for
the less ambitious interpretation of this feature request.

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