[Uml-user] Debian stable packages for umbrello?

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Sam Vilain wrote:

> I realise that woody proper doesn't have the latest QT packages, but 3.1.1
> packages *are* available for woody on kde's web site.  I think that
> umbrello should at least be able to build against these packages.

And in theory it should.  However it's too late to make changes to the 1.1
branch.  I'd appreciate it if you could check out kdesdk from KDE's CVS
and see if Umbrello there compiles.

> Additionally, it is a good idea to include the debian/ control directory
> used to build the packages with dpkg-buildpackage in the .tar.gz
> distribution, so that users can easily produce .debs from the source -
> they're very small, after all.  Same for RedHat .spec's IMHO.

We do include a .spec file but nobody had given us debian/ files.  It's
not needed now though since KDE do all that for us.

> I'd really like to contribute to umbrello - I think I could probably write
> a Perl writer that would be able to write classes to plug in straight away
> to the only truly transparent OO -> RDBMS mapper for Perl, Tangram (via
> Class::Tangram classes that automatically give you accessor methods, and
> homogenic methods for accessing containers that hold associations).

Sounds very interesting, that would be great.

> I
> have written a web-based UML design tool already that covers building
> classes, associations, attributes etc, and it would be great to be able to
> incorporate my work into Umbrello.

Do we get to see it?

> However, I don't want to have to switch to sid; it's called unstable for a
> reason.  It would be like producing RPMs for RawHide and telling users to
> `upgrade' to RawHide to run your application.

Red Hat tends to be a good bit more up to date than Debian stable though.
I don't think I've met any active coders who were using anything less than
testing.

> Real software engineers eat quiche.

I've never yet come across a commercially produced quiche made with free
range eggs unfortunatly.  So it has to be home made for me and usually
it's easier to do scrambled eggs.

Ah, one of those vserver types.  Paul Sladen speaks highly of you.

Jonathan Riddell