Codegeneration patch, take '2' (Was: Re: [Uml-devel] Codegeneration patch.. updated)

[Brian Thomas]

On Tuesday 26 August 2003 01:33 pm, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> you think you can work on it, and hopefully me and others can too
> then yes I think we should go for it.

	Sounds great. 
>
> Once it's in KDE's CVS though you (Brian) won't be able to work on it
> on your own any more, other people will be making changed and you'll
> need to `cvs update` quite often.  It requires lots of small
> changes and not a few big ones.
>

	Heh. Understood, which is partly why I havent been bombarding 
	the umbrello base code with my updates. I wanted to be sure this
	thing would suss out as well as not irritate people with huge, unstable
	code changes over the course of the summer.

	Since you (an Sebastian?) appear to be giving the green light,  I plan
	to check in the code this coming weekend. From that point onwards
	I see much more incremental changes. 

> There's also been lots of suggestions this week for integrating
> Umbrello with KDevelop (I prefer Sebastian's idea of integrating
> KDevelop into Umbrello).  KDevelop 3 has a nice class store that we
> could use apparantly.  However it's not going to happen for the next
> release by any means.

	Well, I guess one problem I have with integration of KDevelop is that 
	its geared towards just development of C++ code in KDE/QT. We have 
	many different code generators that dont appear to be supported (e.g. 
	everything else but C++) so I dont like putting alot of effort into just 
	improving C++ code and forgeting about the others. Or perhaps Im wrong
	about KDevelop (Ive only used it minimally).. if its more general IDE that 
	supports ADA, Perl, Java, XML, etc, then I'd definitely say 'go for it'.

>
> Well Brian, to keep to the KDE feature freeze you have until Monday
> September 1st to have your patch into a shape that can be put into CVS.  Of
> course it can be as buggy as you like because then it's bugfixing
> until December 1st when KDE 3.2 is scheduled for release.
>

	Yeah, at this point I only hope to get some minimal XMI saving in before 
	I checkin. 

	I also want to reinterate that people should be aware that this is a major 
	change  to the code base, and that you can expect some significant 
	buggy behavior for at least the next few weeks. If you or anyone else use 
	the CVS version to do some real work, it would be prudent to check out 
	a copy before this weekend.


> Good work.

	Thanks man.

				=b.t.

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