Make it working with all graphviz tools and it will be wonderful already. BTW, there is already a tool generating graphviz things as this is what was used to document seaside dependencies.
Here us thread: http://forum.world.st/GraphViz-renggli-repo-down-td4722561.html Seems that Roassal 1 had such a thing already. Phil On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Anne Etien <[email protected]> wrote: > > Le 24 févr. 2016 à 10:35, Peter Uhnák <[email protected]> a écrit : > > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Anne Etien <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi Alexandre, >> >> In a wonderful world, I would like: >> - a real graph layout (like in graphviz) that can take into account >> around hundred nodes and several hundred of edges and place the nodes in >> order to see something. Currently, I have to use the circle layout and it >> looks strange. >> > > Unfortunately making real graph layouts is really hard issue… I've wrote > my bachelor thesis about this and didn't get very far; it's bit of a > nightmare if you don't have good foundations. :’( > > > I know. I tried but my mathematical background and my time were not > enough. I got the research paper explaining the algorithm of Graphviz but > even with that, it was very complex. However, since some tools (as > graphviz) do it, we should have it. > > Anne > > > In any case, I wrote a simpler layout delegator in Roassal that delegates > the layouting to graphviz and it works reasonably well, so I could probably > add it to Roassal (you however need graphviz installed and it would add > another dependency to Roassal, which I'm not so keen on). > > Maybe also OGDF (http://ogdf.net/doku.php) could be used if you are ok > with GPL… they have their own graph format so there could be some > interaction. > > Peter > _______________________________________________ > Moose-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.list.inf.unibe.ch/listinfo/moose-dev > > >
