RE: UML cooperation

[Alejandro Imass]

Yeap. My mail was in fact supporting the use of DIA,
just in case it seems the other way around. It was a
response to :
address@hidden

sorry if I confused you('all)!


I have separated the two portions as follows:


--- Derek Neighbors <address@hidden> wrote:
> Alejandro,
> 
> I dont recall all the reason, but diagramming tool
> was decided on months
> ago. :)  So it will remain DIA as far as GNU
> Enterprise is concerned.
> 
> I believe the big factor was "keeping it in the GNU
> family".  Also, I
> belive the other tools were still barely usable
> and/or written in Java.
> Dia is not perfect, but it will work for what we
> need for now.
> 
> Derek Neighbors
> GNU Enterprise
> http://www.gnue.org
> address@hidden
> 
> On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Alejandro Imass wrote:
> 
> > Well. We must admit that DIA is VERY limited at
> the
> > moment and it's a pain to use. BUT (and it's a BIG
> AND
> > LOUD BUT) the framework on which DIA is built will
> > assure not only continuity (GIMP LIB, GNOME, XML,
> > etc..) but I can bet anyone the it will be far
> more
> > functional than any other OO package (like RR) in
> the
> > "near" future. For this reason I placed my bets on
> it
> > and am using it despite it's present (BTW I'm only
> in
> > 0.8 and probably many things are fixed in 0.86)
> state.
> > 
> > Something like what happened with the GIMP and
> > PhotoShop. You see, as more and more of us (GNU's)
> use
> > our own tools there will be more and more demand
> to
> > make them more functional, and very probably GNUE
> will
> > contribute with some (many) add-ons for DIA.
> > 
> > Besides, the XML nature will definitively give us
> many
> > advantages at the present time so we can EASILY
> create
> > our table generating scripts (to say the least)
> > automatically.
> > 
> > Warm Regards,
> > Alejandro
> > 


address@hidden wrote:



> > > | OK for Dia. Though on my end I'll try to
> somehow
> > > feed those
> > > | diagrams to RationalRose (the tools it
> provides
> > > are simply too
> > > | much ... no, it's not open source). But now
> that I
> > > think about
> > > | it, we're going to model in UML, right ? Dia
> is a
> > > general purpose
> > > | diagrams tool, if I recall correctly. Why not
> use
> > > a more specific
> > > | UML tool ? ArgoUML looks pretty good to me
> > > (although it isn't yet
> > > | implementing all of the UML diagrams). It's
> open
> > > source and is
> > > | written in Java (read "runs everywhere"). Have
> you
> > > had a look at
> > > | that ? http://argouml.tigris.org/  Well, just
> a
> > > suggestion.
> > > 
> > 
> > 
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