Re: Objections to converting bsd-family-tree to a dot file
Warner Losh <[email protected]> Mon, 18 Dec 2017 12:52:09 -0700
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On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:54 AM, David Holland <[email protected]> wrote: > 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) > Assuming that the generated graph is something that isn't... well... crazy... Warner _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"