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Ptolemy II is an open-source software framework supporting experimentation with actor-oriented design.
https://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/ptolemyII
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Exec actor needs refactoring and other work. #7

Open cxbrooks opened 19 years ago

cxbrooks commented 19 years ago

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Original bug ID: BZ#8 From: @cxbrooks Reported version: 4.1

cxbrooks commented 19 years ago

actor.lib.Exec, actor.lib.security.KeyStoreActor and gui.JTextAreaExec all have duplicated code. A refactoring might help here. Also, Kepler has some exec actors we should look at.

cxbrooks commented 19 years ago

See also http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/ptolemy/listinfo/ptolemy/2004-February/006929.html which describes some of the limitations of the current Exec actor

cxbrooks commented 19 years ago

Subject: Re: Exec actor needs refactoring and other work.

In addition, Tobin Fricke has the following essay about uses of the Exec actor: http://www.livejournal.com/users/nibot_lab/30408.html

_Christopher

cxbrooks commented 18 years ago

The exec actor has need some rework for awhile. See the Kepler exec actor and Tobin Fricke's Ode to the Exec actor http://nibot-lab.livejournal.com/30408.html