Compare utility evaluation

[Geert Bellekens]

Hi,

I'm evaluating EA (7.0.815 on Oracle repository) and I'm currently looking at the compare utility. I found some weird things, and I would like your thoughts.
- I started trying to compare a package with a generated xmi file. So logically I used the context menu option "export package to xmi file..." on a test package to create the xmi file. I did not change any of the default settings, so it created an xmi 2.1 file. I then tried to compare the created xmi file with my (unchanged) package. To my surprise the compare utility gave the [sarcasm] very usefull [/sarcasm] message: "An error has occured during the compare process"
- After some fiddling about I found the option to control my package and thus exporting it to an xmi file. (xmi 1.1). I did the same thing, compare the created xmi file with my unchanged package; and to my surprise I still got a lot of changes, and even some deletes ?!?

Do any of you have any experience with the compare utility? Because, like it is now, reporting changes without changing anything, this seems totally useless to me.