Re: Entity Modeler: change plist format?

From: Chuck Hill (chil..lobal-village.net)
Date: Mon Jan 28 2008 - 15:09:37 EST

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    Given a choice between the free svn and cvs, svn (Subversion) is the
    choice to make. svn still kinda sucks, but not as badly as cvs does.

    On Jan 28, 2008, at 8:33 AM, David Avendasora wrote:

    > Ah. Version Control System. Yeah, gotta get me one of those. :)
    >
    > Dave
    >
    > On Jan 28, 2008, at 10:24 AM, Mike Schrag wrote:
    >
    >> No, there's no conversion in the manual sense, but there's
    >> conversion in the workflow sense. If you look at your version
    >> control system, going from EOModeler to Entity Modeler makes it
    >> appear that every line of your model files changed. This patch
    >> makes that a much smoother process when you convert your workflow
    >> over to Entity Modeler.
    >>
    >> ms
    >>
    >> On Jan 28, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Ken Anderson wrote:
    >>
    >>> You must be using an EntityModeler after the switch back to
    >>> single line plist format.
    >>>
    >>> On Jan 28, 2008, at 9:28 AM, David Avendasora wrote:
    >>>
    >>>> Conversion? Was my model just too simple, or did I miss
    >>>> something, because when I switched from EOModeler to Entity
    >>>> Modeler, I didn't "convert" anything, it just worked.
    >>>>
    >>>> Dave
    >>>>
    >>>> On Jan 27, 2008, at 7:50 PM, Ken Anderson wrote:
    >>>>
    >>>>> Personally, while the diffing is incredibly useful, I was very
    >>>>> pleased to see it using the single line format for now, since
    >>>>> it was much less traumatic for my conversion...
    >>>>>
    >>>>> On Jan 27, 2008, at 12:18 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:
    >>>>>
    >>>>>>> And what was written as:
    >>>>>>>
    >>>>>>>> primaryKeyAttributes = (
    >>>>>>>> eoid
    >>>>>>>> );
    >>>>>>>
    >>>>>>> is now being written as:
    >>>>>>>
    >>>>>>>> primaryKeyAttributes = (eoid);
    >>>>>>>
    >>>>>>> I feel this is a change to the worse, as the previous format
    >>>>>>> allowed for easy diffing. So, before committing all those
    >>>>>>> changes, I thought I'd ask. :-)
    >>>>>> This "new" format is actually now consistent with EOModeler's
    >>>>>> format. This patch was from the iTunes folks and it basically
    >>>>>> makes it much less traumatic to convert from EOModeler to
    >>>>>> Entity Modeler because it won't completely change your model
    >>>>>> files when you switch. I agree it makes it a little harder to
    >>>>>> diff, but Eclipse should highlight subsections of the line
    >>>>>> that are different, so you should still be able to see the
    >>>>>> diffs without too much pain.
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>> ms
    >>>>>>
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