Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 12:52:09 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: David Holland <dholland-tech@netbsd.org> Cc: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@panix.com>, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, tech-misc@netbsd.org, Kernel@dragonflybsd.org, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Objections to converting bsd-family-tree to a dot file Message-ID: <CANCZdfpc3yaMorBgtd=nNdWKBz_5-iNJc1XiDN%2Bga6SwOB3F9g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20171218185446.GA98@netbsd.org> 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> <20171218185446.GA98@netbsd.org>
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On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:54 AM, David Holland <dholland-tech@netbsd.org> 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
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