Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

[Andrey Repin <anrdaemon yandex ru>]

Greetings, Eduard Nicodei via dia-list!

> The reason why I have used Dia in the past is that I could not find any
> other solution for the following requirements:


> - be fully offline (draw.io & co fail this - plus I'm not trusting them with any work-sensitive material!)
> - is free, open source and is not controlled by a company (yEd fails this -
> also  OmniGraffle, Enterprise Architect, Visual Paradigm, etc)
> - simple, does not require learning a new language (graphviz and any other text->UML tools fail this)

> - lightweight, but still fairly rich in features (libreoffice draw fails the lightweight requirement)
> -  offers a simple interface which is very easy to pick up (I tried 
> Inkscape, but for whatever reason I was never able to get working as  fast as I could in Dia)
> - portable: works on Windows (my main requirement), *BSDs and maybe others.

- customizable by the end-user.
Every single other program I know fails this.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, December 4, 2018 17:51:27

Sorry for my terrible english...