[kepler-dev] [Bug 5280] missing command line execution for KAR files

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http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5280

--- Comment #1 from Daniel Crawl <crawl at sdsc.edu> 2012-06-28 16:22:33 PDT ---
I've added more support for KAR files on the command line. KARs can be run with
and without the gui. A KAR's module dependencies are also checked. I added a
-force option to ignore them and try executing the KAR. 

There's no support for running KARs with -nocache. It would take a major Kepler
redesign to use KARs without the cache.

I also created an effigy for KARs so they can be opened from the command line
via "kepler.sh HelloWorld.kar". It also checks the dependencies. If this check
fails and the user decides not to force the KAR open, then the KAR ends up
being opened by TextEffigy, which shows garbage since KARs are binary. It'd be
nice if either TextEffigy would only open text files, or KAREffigy had some way
of stopping EffigyFactory from trying to open the KAR with other effigy
factories.

To close this bug:

1. prevent TextEffigy from opening KARs
2. test opening/running KARs in a released environment. In this case, if the
module dependencies are not met, the user can download the missing modules and
restart.
3. update docs on website and elsewhere about new command line options for KARs

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