Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 11:11:35 -0600 From: "J. Lewis Muir" <jlmuir@imca-cat.org> To: John Nemeth <jnemeth@cue.bc.ca> Cc: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Kernel@dragonflybsd.org, tech-misc@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Objections to converting bsd-family-tree to a dot file Message-ID: <20171215171135.GA17739@tuna.imca.aps.anl.gov> In-Reply-To: <201712150625.vBF6PDcl029968@server.cornerstoneservice.ca> References: <CAF6rxgken-%2BbrO-%2BsA-eWpFMb=tfTxSpuAuesCCRA1NtaN0_zg@mail.gmail.com> <201712150625.vBF6PDcl029968@server.cornerstoneservice.ca>
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On 12/14, John Nemeth wrote: > On Dec 14, 8:15pm, Eitan Adler wrote: > } I'd like to turn this into into a dot file > > How easy would it be to render something like the existing > bsd-family-tree, e.g. something that is reasonably intelligent when > viewed with more(1) or less(1) with the same basic information that > it has now? Also, would rendering it be something that can reasonably > be done while building the system, or would it need to be pre-rendered > and the result checked into the SCM (keep in mind that NetBSD's > build.sh is portable, i.e. you can build NetBSD on Windows if you > feel like it)? Maybe Graph-Easy <http://search.cpan.org/dist/Graph-Easy/>; could be used? I've never used it, but it claims to support generating graphs as ASCII art. Lewis
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