[Uml-devel] U2 questions / comments

[Luis De la Parra Blum]

Hi Andy, hi all,

I just got me a copy of umbrello2-cvs and am in the process of building it. 
hopefully in the next days I'll have a bit of time so that I can start 
playing around with it, but first some questions / comments:

about the metamodels: could you please give a brief expl. about the different 
classes?, for examle, for UML::Class I've found Core::Class, Core::Class_Impl 
and Core::Class_Class ?

what is the role of each of them? for what I can tell, the Class does nothing 
but return a pointer to a Class_Impl, which is the one doing all the work...
question: why did you implement it this way? (instead of having the Class have 
all the methods?
I guess the Class_Class is the reflective interface for the Class... but how 
do you use it?

- about the app: I think that having  the version number in the class/file 
name is not a good idea at all... I know it's a complete re-write and 
everything, but what are you going to do with Umbrello2App when we get to 
version 3? -> either you're gonna get some inconsistency in the names, or 
you're going to have to re-write large parts of code.
By having version number as part of the name, you are saying good bye to a 
smoot evolution of the project ( slowly improving the code till you get to v3 
) and are forcing a rewrite for the next major version.  
It's not for nothing that KMainWindow is not named KMainWindow3_1_1 ...

having the version number in the libraries and/ or executables is not so bad, 
but there is a big difference between having make output a file named 
umbrello2 or libu2uml, and having the classes named like that.

another point is, I think that a vanilla Document/View model is not going to 
be enough for U2.... we are going to have one document (our Model), but 
ther's going to be many types of views. (diagram views, "model browsers", 
etc, etc ) Each view looks at one part of the document and or from a 
different point of view

regards,
luis