The Ptolemy II faq at
http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/ptolemyII/ptIIfaq.htm
says
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2.1 What about compatibility with Ptolemy Classic (Ptolemy 0.7.x)?
This FAQ covers Ptolemy II. The Ptolemy Classic FAQ can be found
at http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/ptolemyclassic/ptolemy.faq
Ptolemy 0.x is fairly mature software in that the design is stable
and mostly unchanging. The Ptolemy II software system is under active
development.
# They are written in different languages (Java vs. C++)
# They have different file formats. Ptolemy 0.x uses Octtools,
Ptolemy II uses a system based on XML
# They have different user interfaces. The Ptolemy II UI is much
easier to use than the Ptolemy Classic UI.
# Ptolemy Classic works best under Unix. There is a Windows port of
Ptolemy Classic, but it does not work well.
Ptolemy II works under both Unix and Windows.
# Ptolemy Classic can generate code for various DSP primarily using
SDF semantics.
Ptolemy II can generate code for non-hierarchical SDF models and
for hierarchical Giotto models.
For more information about the current status of code generation
in Ptolemy II, see
http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/ptolemyII/ptIIlatest/ptII/doc/codegen.htm
Various people have made efforts to use a different front end with
Ptolemy Classic. See the Ptolemy Website Links Page for possible
solutions, including:
# MLDesigner 2.1 is a commercial product that was released in
January 2002 and it includes a conversion utility from Ptolemy Classic
models.
# The PeaCE (Ptolemy extension as Codesign Environment) might offer
some ideas and does have some software available.
# The 2001 Ptolemy Miniconference had the following talk:
"An Approach to Executing Ptolemy Classic Models under Ptolemy II"
Ned Stoffel, Dwight Richards, Neil Smyth*, and Matt Goodman, Telcordia
Technologies, Inc. (* Smyth is now with Altio).
The slides for this talk can be found at
http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/conferences/01/src/miniconf/Telcordia.pdf
We are not sure if Telcordia has any software available for
release.
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In your case, I think that Ptolemy II would be easier to get running under
Linux than Ptolemy Classic.
If you were very comfortable with C/C++, then you could try Ptolemy
Classic, but the Ptolemy Classic UI is very non-standard and takes
some getting used to.
-Christopher
Christopher Hylands Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of California
Programmer/Analyst Chess/Ptolemy/GSRC US Mail: 558 Cory Hall #1770
ph: 510.643.9841 fax:510.642.2739 Berkeley, CA 94720-1770
home: (F-Tu) 707.665.0131 (W-F) 510.655.5480 (office: 400A Cory)
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Hi, I'm a student from Extremadura, Spain. I have tried to recompile
everything to run Ptolemy II 3.0.2 in linux debian 3.0. I also got JDK
1.4.1, but I think I'm not well configured in the Java enviroment. I use
linux since 3 months. Then, my question is:
I would like to know what version of Ptolemy II is more stable or proved to
start with it, or if the Ptolemy classic version is better for a new user
like me.
I know is a very simple question but I also think that you (hackers) are
the best people to answer me, I'm a little bit lost from the moment.
Thank you and sorry for my bad english.
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