Re: [Gnumed-devel] UML for GNUmed

[J Busser]

At 12:55 AM -0200 12/19/05, Daniel Minahim wrote:

> As what tools I currently using:
> Modeler: Umbrello 1.4.2 (i have argouml 0.19)
> Python: v2.3
> Reverse modeling: None!! This a major research. We probably will have
> to come
> up with one for the Postgres SQL and another for Python
> (PyReverse?).
> Graphics: You'd generate those inside the modelling tool, neither
> Umbrello nor
> ArgoUML can do those from command
> line.

What Linux distro/version are you using? (I am still newbyish, use mostly some Macs, but also have a Debian Sarge box I am getting to know, plus an unused Mac partition I hope to try dual booting with Debian for PowerPC when I get a chance).

> 2) We'll use UML 2.0 to make the models
> and .xmi file format to exchange them.
>

As far as UML 2.0, is that something that can only be done later (hoping that Umbrello will remain backward compatible and up-version existing files later?)

umbrello FAQs say at http://uml.sourceforge.net/faq.php

> Versions
> before 1.4 used a file format that was only very loosely based on XMI
> and was not compatible with other UML programmes. Version 1.4 can read
> the static structure elements from most other UML tools which use XMI
> 1.x. However, currently Umbrello cannot import XMI 2.0 or UML-DI
> (Diagram Interchange.)
>

argouml FAQs say at http://argouml.tigris.org/faqs/users.html#uml_versions

> ArgoUML
> versions through version 0.18.1 support UML 1.3. Beginning with
> version 0.20 in early 2006, ArgoUML will support UML
> 1.4.
> Support of
> UML 2.0 probably won't happen until a new version of JMI is defined
> which supports UML 2.0 and there is an open source implementation
> which supports it.
>

- I gather Umbrello runs only on Linux

- argouml has a downloadable .tar usable (at least to view the .xmis) on Macs and Windows if anyone on the list does not have/use Linux