Re: Re: ArchGenXML thought

On 9/04/2006, at 1:16 AM, Reinout van Rees wrote:

> Matt wrote:
>> Ok, I guess that's all a yes.
>> Are there any developer protocols you all adhere to? I'm very   
>> familiar with plone test cases and selenium testing and pretty ok  
>> on  subversion branching and merging.
>
> Archgenxml is only very lightly tested. Basically only the  
> PyParser.py is tested with unittests (and a few other utility  
> methods). There's one big whopping 2000 line method in  
> ArchetypesGenerator.py or so that does most of the work: that's not  
> tested. So if you haven't looked at the code yet, be prepared for a  
> nasty surprise.


heh, I've stepped through that method in pdb a number of times; it's  
ok, I presume genesis will refactor on that thinking?


>
> In the end, it all works and it's not too bad. It is a mess, though.
>
>> I presume I need to set up a branch  on http://svn.plone.org/svn/ 
>> archetypes/ArchGenXML/branches/  - say  http://svn.plone.org/svn/ 
>> archetypes/ArchGenXML/branches/ form_controller_support ? ... and  
>> some permissions to access it.
>
> If you don't have archetypes repository access yet, could you do it  
> as a patch?

Yes, that's fine.


>
>> also, which specifications of XMI should be developed against?
>> xmi 2.0
>> xmi 2.1
>> xmi 1.3
>> xmi 1.2
>> xmi 1.1
>> and UML
>> uml 2.0
>> uml 1.5
>> I someone could edit that list it would help, or I could follow  
>> my  nose in the code.
>
> Just look at the code. This is actually a bit of a mess. There's a  
> xmi 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 reader, but basically only the 1.2 gets used.  
> And that includes lots of if/else statements to support all the  
> various UML products (including xmi 2.0 support for poseidon4.0).  
> Best talk with Phil about how to structure that ('zwork' on irc).
>

Ok, basically I wanted to know how far back in xmi to be backwards  
compatible.

cheers
Matt



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