On 11 May 07, at 11:25 PM 11 May 07, Milos Kleint wrote:
On 5/11/07, Jason van Zyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
i'm not sure about the IDE integration usefulness. The workflow in IDE
is a bit different from the proposed one.
(Speaking of dependency graph only now)
In the IDE you want interactivity with the optional persistence of the
visual data. You want filters, finding specific artifacts in the tree,
getting more information about them, answering questions like "why was
this artifact included? why it changed scope or version?". And you
want to take corrective action, like forcing a different version or
excluding a certain transitive dependency.
Right, that's what I'm talking about. A diagram by itself is not all
that useful if you can't do anything with it.
Jason.
On top of that layouting complex dependencies with a lot of
transitivity is extremely difficult even if you use some advanced
algorithms. (I've done experiments layouts coming with jung, jgraph
etc) so I'm somewhat sceptical towards the practical usefulness of an
automated generation of jpeg pictures apart from being nice demoware
in simple projects.
Regards
Milos
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