VCG Graph Layout in DIA (Re: XML)

[James Michael DuPont <mdupont777 yahoo com>]

--- Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, James Michael DuPont wrote:
> > --- Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, James Michael DuPont wrote:
> > > > My biggest concern with the dotty program is that we are
> supporting
> > > > non-free software. Creating a direct dependancy on a software
> that
> > > is
> > > > not compatible with the GPL. The software would have to be
> > > distributed
> > > > with dia to use this feature. 
> > >
> > > As long as Dia don't require dot to compile/run, there's no
> problem
> > > with
> > > interaction.  Having the ability to call out to dot when available
> is
> > > a
> > > good thing.  
> >
> > Would you consider also directly supporting the VCG tool?
> > it produces modest results, and is GPLEd. We need at least some
> basic
> > support for multiple graph file formats. The VcG layout algorithm
> can
> > be directly embedded into Dia.
>
> Certainly.  I wasn't aware of its existence.  Perhaps we can steal
> some
> autolayout for autorouting.

Great,
I posted an annouce to the list of the availibilty of the full source
code, 

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2003-February/msg00029.html

Maybe you can test it? We need to work out a layout api
for passing graphs and and layouts back and forth :

for the past 8 years, the sources have been uglified, preventing full
gpl compliance and preventing full usage. After some emails and
convincing to the author, we have the patches to make it fully GPL
compliant. Thanks to Gregor Greve for lots of help with it. 

I have mentioned it on the list a many times,
but not really explaining the purpose or the meaning.
If you want to review what I have said about vcg here are some mails :

http://www.mail-archive.com/dia-list gnome org/msg03870.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/dia-list gnome org/msg04114.html

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2002-May/msg00129.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2002-June/msg00021.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2002-June/msg00443.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2002-July/msg00024.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2002-July/msg00241.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2002-July/msg00165.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2002-August/msg00210.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2002-September/msg00078.html

Here are some mails from other lists:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2002-June/msg00153.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-app-devel-list/2003-January/msg00202.html

mike

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James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

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