Re: what's the story on dot?

Hi Vicki,

Vicki Brown wrote:

> What did I miss doing? I read the README. I built Synopsis using
>     python setup.py build
>
> And now I see
> [email protected] [~...hermes/qstore] 107: synopsis -p Python -f HTML -o
~/GCQ gcq.py
> dot: not found 

[...]


That's obviously an omission from the README:

the default configuration of the HTML formatter uses a tool called 'dot' to
generate
UML-like class diagrams. Dot is part of the 'graphviz' package which you may
download
from http://graphviz.org/ .

The reason this is not part of synopsis' official dependency list is that we
had some discussion
a while ago concerning synopsis' own packaging. Debian distributes graphviz
under 'non-free',
so we were looking at whether to package the modules that rely on 'dot'
separately to have a 
fully free synopsis package on debian. The issue is still unresolved...

Regards,
		Stefan