On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 09:36:36AM -0700, Andy Halper wrote:
> > I've also been playing with Oracle and have some Perl
> > to turn a table list into SQL creation scripts. I'd
> > like to hack something like Visio's database map into
> > dia, but I'm not rightly sure where I should start.
>
> I have also been eyeing Dia as a platform for a free ER/database-design tool,
> but I had something in mind more ambitious along the lines of ERwin. It would
> be nice to design it as a plug-in, but I can see how there could be advantages
> of taking a seperate development track.
>
> I think I would start with support for MySQL and PostgreSQL first. My
> reasoning is that if you can afford Oracle, you can probably afford Designer
> 2000, ERwin, Visio, etc.
>
> Originally I was going to call it "ERsatz" (because it's not ERwin...nyar nyar
> nyar....), but lately I've been thinking "ERDia" would be a good name too.
>
> Thoughts? Any interest in such a thing?
I must say that you have just found one interested user and developer. I'm
using MySQL right now, and I was thinking about making a script which
transfers my database structure to dia. Right now, I'm using
dot (from GraphViz http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/)
and I was thinking of converting that output (it has automatic generation
of graph drawings which I like) to Dia. That automatic layout-ing would
be an interesting addition to Dia, but we can't use GraphViz's because
of AT&T licence, so next best thing is to convert output for Dia.
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