Well, that settles it. On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Evgeniy Philippov <egphilip...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello all, > > Overall: I have not yet decided: will I develop my app or not. > > > > Hans Breuer wrote: > >> So you don't want to use Dia's internal model (diagram, layers, objects)? >> > I mean a model of a completely different kind, which is on-the-fly > transformed into Dia model and then displayed by Dia. Maybe it's more > suitable to develop a completely different project, I don't know yet. > > BTW: what's an "outside plugin"? Something not included with standard Dia? >> > Yes. My future app (I have not completely decided will I develop it or > not) is of completely different nature than Dia, only the display/render > routines are similar. So it would be at another package, not included with > Dia. > > Or something running outside of Dia? Or without Dia? >> > I'm uncertain yet. > > >> Maybe >>> Dia architecture could evolve to allow such use without forking Dia into >>> another project. (I didn't study Dia's architectural documents yet.) >>> >>> Sorry I don't understand the architectural model you have in mind. >> > I didn't completely build the architectural model. Too early to build it. > > > It might be either developing a plugin for Dia or ripping out some subset >> of Dia functionality to be reused in another application. What would you be >> "forking into another project"? >> > The question was about interacting of a would-be future codebase with Dia, > OR breaking all relations except for heritage relation. It seems Dia team > is OK with code interacting between packages. > > As I said I'm uncertain about what you are looking for, but neither >> enabling external (as in out of tree) plugins ... >> > > Yes, my would-be project is an out-of-Dia-tree plugin that would-be using > Dia API (or using the Dia codebase metaprogrammatically, transforming into > something, hooking at some places). > > ... nor prodividing a diagramming library are partcular high on my own >> personal list. >> > > > Mirko Vukovic wrote: > >> Maybe he means generating the XML file in Dia's format, which Dia can >> then display on screen, or convert to another format >> > No. Not this at all. > > > Evgeniy > > ______________________________**_________________ > dia-list mailing list > dia-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/**listinfo/dia-list<http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list> > FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq > Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia > > -- Put this question to yourself: should I use everyone else to attain happiness, or should I help others gain happiness? *Dalai Lama * To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasaed125362.html> A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. *Warren Buffet* Michael E. Ross (919) 550-2430 Land (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Google Phone (919) 631-1451 Cell (919) 513-0418 Desk michael.e.r...@gmail.com <michael.e.r...@gmail.com>
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