No position change for checked in packages

[Frank Horn]

EA 7.1.834

Create a new project, configure version control, and import two version controlled packages via "Get Package".

If you don't have these packages checked out to you, you cannot change their positions within the parent package, the reason being that in XMI 1.1 the position is written not to the parent package but to the child package, in a node like

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<UML:TaggedValue tag="tpos" value="2" />

I think this is wrong, because the position within the parent package should be a property of the parent. You can, after all, import various controlled packages into different projects, in which they can reside under different packages and in different positions.

Does any one disagree or shall I send a bug report?

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Gets my vote...

Paolo

[Frank Horn]

Bringing this up again cause I sent a bug report more than a month ago and never got an answer (except for the autoreply). EA 7.5. hasn't changed anything either.

[Geert Bellekens]

I agree.

Geert

[Frank Horn]

Got an answer from support:

I agree that the position of an element within its parent package is a
property of the parent package and not the element itself.

I believe that we can implement changes to this behaviour relatively
easily.  Provided the change don't produce any adverse side-effects,
then I expect we will be able to include such changes, probably in the
release after next.

The ID number assigned to this issue is 09042542.  Please quote this
number in any future correspondence related to this issue.