[Antbear-devel] Re: UML tool

[Daniel Ng]

Hi guys,

I've yet to download Poseidon and if we are sticking
to VP then I would be happy with that, since it seems
fine to me (ableit minor limitations that Adam pointed
out).

As for a separate mailing list for cvs commits, that
sounds like a good idea Thorsten...

Daniel.

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> From: "Adam Ferla" <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 11:57:23 +1100
> Subject: [Antbear-devel] UML tool
> 
> Hey guys
> 
> Have we made a choice on what UML tool we are using.
> I downloaded Visual 
> Paradigm Community edition. The downside I have seen
> so far with this is 
> that it only allows 1 use case diagram per project.
> This will not be a huge 
> problem.
> 
> Also, I've been thinking why poseidon has been
> stuffing up. Could it be that 
> because CVS is designed with source files in mind
> when updating binary files 
> it tries to fix up conflicts between two versions of
> the binary files, in 
> doing so, it makes them unreadable (because binary
> files are not ASCII). 
> That might be why when you put a completely new
> zargo file on the cvs it 
> worked fine, CVS did not have to fix up any
> conflicts between the users' old 
> file and the new updated file.
> 
> I hope that makes sense. Anyway let me know what you
> think.
> 
> See Ya
> 
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> Subject: Re: [Antbear-devel] UML tool
> From: wolpers <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Date: 04 Nov 2002 13:50:07 +0100
> 
> On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 01:57, Adam Ferla wrote:
> > Hey guys
> > 
> > Have we made a choice on what UML tool we are
> using. I downloaded Visual 
> > Paradigm Community edition. The downside I have
> seen so far with this is 
> > that it only allows 1 use case diagram per
> project. This will not be a huge 
> > problem.
> I did not know that.  But I also would consider this
> not to be a big
> problem.  So unless one of you really decides
> against it I would prefer
> to stick with visual-paradigm.
> > 
> > Also, I've been thinking why poseidon has been
> stuffing up. Could it be that 
> > because CVS is designed with source files in mind
> when updating binary files 
> > it tries to fix up conflicts between two versions
> of the binary files, in 
> > doing so, it makes them unreadable (because binary
> files are not ASCII). 
> 
> > That might be why when you put a completely new
> zargo file on the cvs it 
> > worked fine, CVS did not have to fix up any
> conflicts between the users' old 
> > file and the new updated file.
> > 
> This could be the case.  You can tell CVS when
> checking in a new file
> that it is a binary file to make sure it does not
> mess up the files.  I
> thought about this, too, but none of the binary
> files I ever submitted
> to CVS got corrupted.  In combination with the fact
> that the first
> .zargo file you sent me via mail was also broken I
> blamed Poseidon to be
> the bugger.
> From the web I could read that (even though they
> sell their product!)
> Poseidon does have trouble saving projects without
> the loss of data
> under certain circumstances.
> 
> We could use the 'cvs admin <some parameter>'
> command to switch already
> checked in files to 'binary' if you prefer.  This of
> course makes only
> sense if they have not yet been corrupted, like the
> visual-paradigm
> files.
> 
> This brings me to another cvs point:  I thought
> about the idea of
> setting cvs up that we get automatic mails whenever
> somebody checked
> something in via cvs.  In the mail we get a list of
> files that have been
> changed and, more important, we get to read the
> message the updating
> person wrote about its updates.  I would like those
> mails to be sent to
> the antbear-devel mailinglist, although we can set
> up another one if
> someone does not want to get all those cvs mails. 
> Please note that
> every 'cvs commit' would lead to one mail and that
> can sum up to quite a
> few mails!
> So please tell me if you want to have a separate
> mailinglist, that you
> do not have to join, for the automatic cvs mails. 
> You could always
> browse the archives if you wanted to.
> 
> - Thorsten
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