Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams

On 27 September 2010 15:29, Thom Brown <thombrown@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 July 2010 11:58, Rafael Martinez <r.m.guerrero@usit.uio.no> wrote:
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>> Thom Brown wrote:
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>>> Okay, I just edited an existing dia file: pgclient_server.dia.  All I
>>> did was change the font size of the text "client application" at the
>>> top of the diagram, and changed the properties of a line so the
>>> arrowhead was no longer on the end.  I used dia 0.97.1 to edit the
>>> file. The result when saving is attached in the diff file.  That's a
>>> lot of file changes for what I did.
>>>
>>> Thom
>>>
>>
>> Indeed.
>>
>> The only explanation I can find to this is that I used dia.0.96.1 to
>> generate the file and you have used 0.97.1 to edit it.
>>
>> Almost all changes are to the attributes:
>>  <dia:rectangle val=....
>>  <dia:point val=....
>>
>> I suspect that these changes have been done because 'something' have
>> changed between the two main versions in the way they deal with these
>> attributes :(
>
> Has anyone yet come up with a reliable and sensible format we can use?

Obviously nothing for this happened in time to make it for 9.1.  So
are diagrams still something we plan to have?

Thom