Re: Dia Shapes for Finite Automata

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 03:58 +0530, Faraz Shahbazker wrote:
> I created these shapes for drawing State Transition Diagrams for
> Finite Automata. The package contains just 4 basic shapes adopted from
> the notation used in "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages,..."
> by Hopcroft, Motwani, Ullman.
>
> Not really sure how to go about their inclusion. Similar requests on
> this list seem to be pretty dated (like 3 years ago). Could someone
> please guide me on the current procedure???

The best thing overall to do is file a bugreport with them, attaching
the files to the bugreport.  That way they don't disappear in the
mountains of mail (or mail filters).  Also make sure that they are in an
easy-to-apply form, such as a unified diff including some sort of
documentation for what they are used for.  It is also preferable that a
sheet file be sent as an .sheet.in file -- you can see the difference in
the source, basically the .sheet.in files allow for translation of the
names and descriptions.  Including a change to the Makefile.am file to
include the sheet is also nice.  All of this reduces the time I have to
spend and thus increases the speed at which I can get through the
requests.

-Lars

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Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>