[Uml-user] Next Umbrello: Will it be backwards compatible?

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 03:31:19PM +0200, Sebastian Stein wrote:
> Chris Gordon-Smith <c.gordon-smith at cwcom.net> [030727 15:22]:
> > Does anyone know how stable the file format that it saves to is; will the
> > next stable release be able to read files produced by V1.2 alpha? I want
> > to document my artificial chemistry project using Umbrello, but would not
> > want to spend a lot of time doing this if there is a chance that the next
> > stable release will not be able to read the files I produce.
> 
> It isn't planned to change. Maybe we will store function bodies (source
> code) in the xmi file, but I don't know if Brian Thomas is going to
> implement this.
> 
> Nevertheless, last week we found a problem and now we have problems loading
> old files (version <= 1.1). We don't know if there is another problem in
> which needs maybe a fileformat breaking fix...

It should all be backwards compatible (regardless of code generation
changes), but there is a chance that this recent issue with utf8
streams might break some stuff (I've not looked at it yet).  I don't
think you'll have any problems unless you're using non-ascii
characters though.

Jonathan Riddell