On Tue, 1 May 2001, Hans Breuer wrote:
> - work on all major platforms, (Does this include Gnome 1.4;
> anyone using Gnome 1.4 out there ?)
> - make available all the bugfixes since the last official
> version (Dia 0.86 has had some serious problems with some
> menu actions, see: Objects/Align/Equal Distance thread.
> Are there any *users* out there ?)
> - contain less bugs/more features than the previous release
> - silence complaining about bugs, which got fixed month ago
> - be localized properly ?
I think one of the biggest features would be increasing extensibility or
providing more and easier to find documentation on extending dia, be it
plugins or tools that work along side Dia.
but thats just me because I never want to use Visio again, actually I
never want to use any diagram prgram again I want it all to work magically
thru perl scripts and xml and mind reading, but one step at a time :)
as for releasing early and often - thats what CVS is for amongst the other
good points hans makes.
One of the things that makes a software project more dynamic is having
making it more accesable through plugins and api's and documentation that
mean people can pick it up and start hacking. I'd love to hack dia but my
C isn't too hot, hence me doing automagic with Dia's XML using perl,
having an API or a way to do perl plugins would make a huge difference.
finally thanks to the Dia developers and maintainers for doing things the
right way - the XML file format is really useful - I am using it to create
UML class diagrams in perl and now I'm parsing the xml into text/html
documentation as well. I know of a bunch of other projects that taking the
xml and doing cool stuff with it like dia2sql.
Anyone got any thoughts on Graphviz - it does automagic layout, don't know
how much use or interest it would be to the Dia developers? I am planning
to make my code work with both Dia and Graphviz.
regards,
A.
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ps - anybody need a decent perl developer in london, uk?(email me offlist)
pps - automagic xml goodness : http://droogs.org/autodial/ (ditto)
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