Re: UML Association file format changes in 0.97

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 18.06.2009 11:26, andreas faafeng com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to sort out a bug [1] in Parse-Dia-SQL which seem to be triggered by 
> UML Association file format changes in Dia version 0.97.  I wonder if similar changes 
> can be expected going forward, 
Yes, changes to Dia's native format internals are to be expected in the 
future, though they usually try to keep even forward-compatibility. See 
e.g.: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576468

> and if yes, can the "version" tag be used to identify them? 
Yes, the 0.96 Association had version="1", for 0-97 it is version="2".
Or am I missing something?

> I have also noticed that multiplicity is spelled 'multipicity' in objects/UML/association.c.  
> Is that intentional or a typo?
An unfortunate typo now part of the specification (answer a bit hard to be 
found by google suggesting the right spelling) at 
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/ here:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2009-March/msg00067.html

        Hans

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