[Uml-devel] second thoughts

[Andrew Sutton]

2.0 status update:

hmm... there's too much code to keep maintaining a non-generated metamodel. i 
find that i have to keep rewriting the same shit over and over and over and 
over. that method has been proven to increase the rate of error.

so... new idea. actually, an old idea, but a good idea. i'm currently working 
on a brute force XMI parser for metamodel specifications. its a really, 
really lightweight parser that i intend to use to generate the MOF and UML 
metamodel implementations. it also affords me the ability to not think about 
stuff like associations or reflection. thank god.

i should be mostly done with it in a week or so. maybe i'll even check it in 
before that :) i can already create a nested object hiearchy for packages, 
classes, attributes, references and operations. yeah! i can also just as 
easily ignore things like tags, constraints, and other crap that i don't want 
to think about. yeah!

let me know if anybody wants this posted. i'll drop it into a "tools" 
directory under the umbrello2 module.

andy