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List:       kde-kuml-devel
Subject:    Re: Packages
From:       p_george <p_george () club-internet ! fr>
Date:       1999-12-19 20:33:54
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Jake Fear wrote:
> 
> I agree with much of this, but I don't think packages should contain any
> drawing items.  The model and the view should remain sepperated.  Drawing items
> are views, not data.  All data should have a class that represents it.  Actors,
> packages, modules, classes etc, should all have a data class that extends
> properties.  For simple entities like actors this will be a very simple
> subclass.  Then, packages will be able to contain them all in a way that is
> decoupled from the view.  This is good because then there can be different
> views of the data (in the tree view and the diagrams different view tools can
> be used to represent the data without affecting the data).  Perhaps the
> "DrawingPackage" class (does not exist yet) should be a container for drawing
> items, but I have not thought much on this.  Pascal, do you disagree?

I agree. I will change a few things in the code I wrote to comply to
this (use case diagrams).
We may have soon to setup a data structure able to contain all these
datas, with easy access to it ... and with the package stuff. I don't
know how to approach it for the moment.

The description I made about packages is from the user point of view.

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