[Uml-devel] codegenerators

[Sebastian Stein]

P. Fleury <fleury at users.sourceforge.net> [030412 11:33]:
> >I'm not convinced at the need for this /within/ Umbrello.  If the file 
> >is
> >edited outside Umbrello the changes shouldn't be overwritten but I'm not
> >
>                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> I think this is the key factor, enabling people to use a cascading way 
> of designing software. Design with umbrello, generate code, edit it in 
> you favorite IDE. When some design change is needed, edit it in 
> Umbrello, re-generate the code with no loss of what the user had edited 
> in the IDE.
> Something along the lines of the diff3 approach should be reasonably 
> easy and has a great functionality improvement factor.

Of course this would be better, but it is hard to do. So maybe first try the
easy solution and than get into more complex things.

Steinchen
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