Re: [long+short] autorouting patch status?

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 10.11.2012 01:54, Enrique Filiage wrote:
> What about use autorouting techniques used by graphviz package??
Graphviz and other layout libraries/tools like OGDF only deal with simple 
shapes. To integrate the layout algorithms with Dia the releation to Dia's 
objects must be preserved somehow. Also the layouting has to be connected 
to Dia's undo system. This is what the new layout plug-in does.

It would certainly be possible to implement a backend based on graphviz 
technology, either it's command line tools or maybe it's libraries. But 
someone would have to give it a try.

> Graphs can be exported as plain format, so a Dia plugin can easily handle
> this file format...
In fact such a plug-in already exisits in the Dia distribution for years 
[1]. But that does not solve the issues mentioned above.

Patches accepted.

        Hans

[1] http://git.gnome.org/browse/dia/log/plug-ins/python/dot2dia.py

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