Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2017 20:18:47 -0500 From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@panix.com> To: Mark Heily <mark@heily.com> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net>, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, tech-misc@netbsd.org, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>, Kernel@dragonflybsd.org Subject: Re: Objections to converting bsd-family-tree to a dot file Message-ID: <20171218011847.GA12528@panix.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGfo=8nNo_-zJAQ-Rp8aD-fdV1oXsh331i5eUkccecOme1TGDw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAF6rxgnma1ntnMONbbk0joMaQC5NkkEEZ2ze7uCubj%2B_DLyrrA@mail.gmail.com> <201712161949.vBGJnnMR008332@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> <CAGfo=8nNo_-zJAQ-Rp8aD-fdV1oXsh331i5eUkccecOme1TGDw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 09:12:03PM -0500, Mark Heily wrote: > On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Rodney W. Grimes < > freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > > > On 15 December 2017 at 08:43, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> > > wrote: > > > >> I'd like to turn this into into a dot file > > > > Sounds like a reasonable idea. With care, the source (text) file(s) > > can > > > > often be formatted in a way that's at least semi-readable. I assume > > this > > > > would ship with pregenerated images (PDF, SVG) so people don't have to > > > > install the port to render the graph? > > > > > > > > > The overall consensus seems to be: so long as there is a reasonable > > > > way to view this file in plaintext without requiring a tool in base, > > > its fine. I'll likely run with that after ironing out the conversion > > > bit. > > > > I have seen no presentation of a reasonable way to view the > > graph in plain text. > > > I have no personal experience with it, but a quick Google search says > there are programs based on the Graph::Easy library that can > render DOT files as ASCII. And we have to pull what exactly into base or comp to use "Graph::Easy"? Thor
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