Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 18:54:46 +0000 From: David Holland <dholland-tech@netbsd.org> To: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@panix.com> Cc: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, tech-misc@netbsd.org, Kernel@dragonflybsd.org Subject: Re: Objections to converting bsd-family-tree to a dot file Message-ID: <20171218185446.GA98@netbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20171218011847.GA12528@panix.com> References: <CAF6rxgnma1ntnMONbbk0joMaQC5NkkEEZ2ze7uCubj%2B_DLyrrA@mail.gmail.com> <201712161949.vBGJnnMR008332@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> <CAGfo=8nNo_-zJAQ-Rp8aD-fdV1oXsh331i5eUkccecOme1TGDw@mail.gmail.com> <20171218011847.GA12528@panix.com>
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On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 08:18:47PM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > > > 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"? My vote would be to ship it in base as SVG and PDF, and forget the text version. This is 2017 and everyone has a PDF reader of some kind in their UI somewhere. (and yes, maybe we ought to be able to read PDFs in base, but that's far from a critical issue) -- David A. Holland dholland@netbsd.org
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