[kepler-dev] [Bug 4730] Kepler cannot run workflows stored in KAR files from the command-line.

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http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4730

David Welker <welker4kepler at gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |welker4kepler at gmail.com
            Summary|ant run-workflow fails with |Kepler cannot run workflows
                   |paths with spaces           |stored in KAR files from
                   |                            |the command-line.

--- Comment #2 from David Welker <welker4kepler at gmail.com> 2010-02-11 04:27:47 PST ---
This bug does not exist when running ant "run-workflow" against an ordinary
workflow which is stored in an XML file. I just ran it on
outreach/resources/demos/getting-started/04-HelloWorld.xml and it worked fine.

The problem here is simply that it is not possible to run workflows stored in
kar files from the command-line. 

This brings up a related issue. It seems to me that the KAR file format is
obsolete. The original purpose, as I understand it, is to allow actors or
workflows to include jars and other resources they need. But, shouldn't such
resources be generally provided by modules?

Perhaps the KAR format is still relevant if what we want to distribute with an
actor is a special image or icon to represent that actor in Kepler that we
would not expect a module to provide...

Anyway, I am renaming this bug. The problem appears to be that workflows stored
in kar files cannot be executive by Kepler from the command-line. As the build
merely defers this work to the command-line, if the command-line worked, so
would this ant command.

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