[Interest] why Qt document have no UML graph?

[Charley Bay]

>
> gemfield  spaketh:
>
> Hi,
> >
> > I have a question,that why Qt document have no UML  graph?
>

Thiago respondeth:

> Because no UML graphs were ever drawn for Qt code. And I see no point in
> drawing them now.


+1    HAHAHAA!

Sorry, not sure why I found that *so* funny (must be my
sick-twisted-humor), apologies to all.

I hold little love for UML, and as it never really "caught-on" in Computer
Science (for various reasons), it's clear I'm not alone.

Konstantin offereth:

> IMHO, UML is useful only for designing architecture, because when code is
> written, one can use Doxygen to build diagrams for all kinds of class
> interrelations. However, feel free to contribute UML graphs if you have
> them ;)


+1 to Konstantin.  Class hierarchies are "free" in Doxygen, and the
Graphvix plugin to Trac similarly make these "free" (parsed from original
source).

I understand the Qt docs are created from a Doxygen-like "derivative", but
as projects get larger, I find UML-like graphs to take up too much space
and provide insufficient information (they aren't very useful) in
production-level infrastructures.  We have UML graphs available (for free)
in our code bases, but we don't really find them useful (they are too busy,
take up too much visual space, and provide the wrong kind of detail).  YMMV.

--charley
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