INTO-CPS Application Release Candidate 4.0.0
Pre-release
INTO-CPS Application Release Candidate 4.0.0 (April 8, 2020)
What's New?
This release features a major overhaul of the app. It consists of major changes to the app code base, upgrading the building process/system, and GitHub Actions based release process.
Most of the app dependencies versions were bumped. Thanks to @Unsongheroes who lead the upgrading task. Among the changes we have:
Although not interfering with the App usage itself, the gulp build script and
the system itself were greatly upgraded.
The dependencies upgrade introduced several breaks of functionality. For instance the traceability feature should not be working properly, but we tried to maintain most of the functionality used in the tutorials and typical app use cases.
This release marks also the addition of the Spectron testing by @Armina1506 . We plan to have a test step in the packaging pipeline soon. This version release process relied on good old manual testing. Please help us with that by trying out the tutorials in https://github.com/INTO-CPS-Association/training @pglvdm, @clegaard and @mdinc1972 will give it a first go.
@clegaard also added a new docs folder and is working on documentation. I would like to receive feedback on its usage, and whether we should keep it in this repo or move it somewhere else where it makes more sense.
The app overhaul is just beginning. There are many outstanding issues, and during the release
we detected several additional problems with the Mac version as discussed below. We expect a future major re-organization of the code base soon. Please stay tuned! Thanks to all of you for your contributions.
Requirements
In order to open projects from Git, including the public examples import, you will need to have Git installed and available in your system path.
If you want to run co-simulations, you will need the COE. It can be downloaded from the download manager inside the app. In order to run the COE, you need to have Java 8 installed. Java 8 is also required to co-simulate FMUs exported from Overture.
To run Design Space Exploration Experiments, Python 2.7 is required.
The app has no other dependencies and no installation is required. Simply unzip and run. On Windows, the app cannot be run from a mapped network drive.
Known Issues
There are a few known issues with the app:
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We are having troubles running the COE in some Java and Mac OS versions.
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Regarding the Catalina GUI partial rendering issues caused by OpenGL deprecation (check: electron/electron#20944), we have the following workaround. Launch the app from a console with the flag --disable-gpu
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When creating/importing projects, no check is made for the root path. The project will not open/import correctly if given an invalid path.
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When importing examples or projects through Git, if you import an already imported project to the same location, the download manager will sometimes hang at 0% progress.
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The app has no explicit setting for proxies. In order to use it behind a proxy, please set the
HTTP_PROXYenvironment variable (see https://github.com/INTO-CPS-Association/into-cps-application/wiki/Working-with-a-proxy)
For the full list, see https://github.com/INTO-CPS-Association/into-cps-application/issues.
Problems and Troubleshooting
If you run into any problems, please use the issue tracker at https://github.com/INTO-CPS-Association/into-cps-application/issues. The tracker is also available from within the app itself via Help > Report Issue