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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>,
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Subject: Re: Objections to converting bsd-family-tree to a dot file
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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