Re: Graph::ASCII::Dia

["Aaron Trevena" <aaron trevena gmail com>]

On 23/03/06, Grégoire Dooms <dooms info ucl ac be> wrote:
> Nobody said that you *have* to use Python. I remember reading Hans said
> you could develop Perl bindings.
>
> > I've always found developer documentation for dia to be almost
> > entirely absent - I had to reverse engineer the XML format for autodia
> > to work because it was undocumented, looking at how to write a perl
> > API and allow plugins (two quite large jobs, mostly because the dia
> > side is undocumented) shows a complete abscence of any useful tips,
> > let alone documentation. This is annoying.
>
> True. But did you take the time to document that XML format and release
> it to the open crowd of wanna be contributors ?

I believe I made some documentation of it at the time and responded to
queries when emailed about it, however I can't find the notes I made
now due to bitrot. However the template in Autodia makes it pretty
clear, as do the comments in the code.

> Well everybody has its bad hours. Is it any more constructive to raise
> this matter into a flaming war ?

Not really, I just don't like python zealots, and right now I'm having
a particularly bad week dealing with code written by a PHP Weenie and
somebody who the bosses describe as a 'genius', it's a complete
trainwreck and the few scraps of documentation available are either,
out of date, brainstorming disguised as specifications, or plainly
incorrect. God save me from 'clever' programmers.

A.