Quoth xmk637-dev@...266... on or about 2004-10-10:
Now, what I have mostly been doing with Visio as a developer is modelling software development, with methodologies, like ERD-, or all kinds of UML-diagramms.
My question is: do you have the goal or plan - and if yes, when - to add similar features and patterns to inkscape?
I think it's on the roadmap, but I'm only a user.
If it is not in your plans, does anybody of you know an open source software for the above described activities? (I don't Poseidon to it)
I use the graphviz[0] package to draw class diagrams, although `draw' is not really the right word. I write something like this to a graph file:
#include "uml.doth" Database [CLASS,label="{\N|\ - customers : Customer[]\l\ ... + delete(string): void\l}"] Customer [CLASS,label="{\N|\ - name : string\l\ ... + parse(string) : \N&\l}"] Database -> Customer [COMPOSITION]
and graphviz generates a SVG / PS / whatever image.
For sequence diagrams I used pic2plot[1] and a macro file from Diomidis Spinellis[2].
These techniques are only good enough for simple graphs, and writing them is more like programming than drawing. I like `em, your mileage may vary.
-trent
[0] http://graphviz.org [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/plotutils.html [2] http://www.spinellis.gr/sw/umlgraph/