On Fri, 21 Oct 2016, Johannes Berg <johan...@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>> >    https://pythonhosted.org/sphinxcontrib-aafig/
>> > 
>> > I've not actually played with it at all, but I like the idea that
>> > we'd have readable diagrams in the source docs as well...
>> 
>> Well, maybe. I agree having it readable in the source docs as well is
>> nice, but for sequence diagrams in particular, I don't think
>> 
>>     +-------+         +-----------+
>>     | Hello +-------->+ aafigure! |
>>     +-------+         +-----------+
>> 
>> really beats
>> 
>>    Hello -> aafigure!
>
>
> I found another one:
>
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sphinxcontrib-plantuml
>
> That one has really nice output and features, but ends up being a
> *java* (of all the things) tool that the thing calls out to ...
>
>
> Perhaps we can have a compromise and embed the raw text when the
> tooling isn't all installed, so you can still build useful
> documentation, but to get all the "prettiness" you might have to
> install more dependencies?

I had the same conclusion for math:: directives pulling in latex
dependency [1]. Hopefully Markus can help here.

BR,
Jani.


[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/877f93qdd2....@intel.com



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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center

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