[Uml-devel] Fw: UML modeller - installation and development

[Paul Hensgen]

----- Original Message -----
From: <tomas.walch at se.transport.bombardier.com>
To: <phensgen at users.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 5:51 PM
Subject: UML modeller - installation and development


> Hi!
>
> First of all I want to thank you for a great program, the only GPL'd
modelling
> tool worth the name. ( I run Solaris, and built kdelibs just to run UML
> Modeller!)
>
> I have recently installed the snapshot available at the website and
thought you
> might like to know about some issues I encountered.
> 1. The classparser is dependent upon GNU Flex which isn't checked for in
> configuration.
> 2. The png images in the handbook are "corrupted by ASCII conversion" or
so
> khelpcenter says when trying to show them. This occured on two completely
> separate installations (on a Linux box as well) so it can't be the
unpacking or
> something like that.
> 3. The KDE fix for lack of 'setenv(...)' (declared in config.h and defined
in
> fakes.c) wasn't found on my Solaris system (that lacks setenv in stdlib).
I
> added the signature from kdelib's config.h to uml.h, and that worked, but
it's
> ugly as hell ;-), it would've been better to get it declared in a config.h
file
> just as for kdelibs.
>
> So much for installation issues, now it is running nicely. Over to
development.
> Since I myself is a C++-programmer and use UML a lot I naturally feel like
> helping out improving the program, and I read that this is of intrest to
the
> project. I don't know how much time I will have, but I guess that's always
the
> case. Please let me know what the next planned improvements are and if you
have
> some small one that you can hand out to start with. One problem I must
mention
> is that I cannot use cvs through our firewall so CM has to be "manual".
>
> regards,
> Tomas Walch
>
>