[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > This seems to be getting off track from dia being a diagram tool. People
> > have said that it would be nice to be able to generate source code from
> > diagrams they do in dia.
> >
>
> I think dia should just generate UXF or XMI, and stop there. A UXF => C++
> or XMI => C++ translator should be a separate tool.
>
> Tools to translate C++ => UXF or C++ => UML should also be separate from
> dia.
>
> I think this will simplify support for multiple languages (that is, dia
> only supports UXF and/or XMI, and other tools handle things like
> Python, smalltalk, c++, java, eiffel, etc.)
>
> I think it will grant users of dia more freedom; eventually there may be a
> variety of tools to turn XMI into language Foo, and they may have
> different (dis)advantages.
>
> I think it will simplify dia too.
>From a developper point of view,
I hope you understand that, using FreeCase as a exemple, Dia contains
the graphical elements(tools) of those modeling tools.
Could/should it be extended to allow this kind of integration.
Can Dia be reusable, in that sense. What are the mechanism provided.
This can be a nice feature to have.
Gilles J. Seguin
