On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 13:09 -0400, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > Why do you use graphviz? Isn't the module browser giving you the > graph that you want?
Honestly I don't really know much about it. It seems to show something of the structure of my modules but it's not quite there (I'm not using 5.1 yet, is it better?). For example, names are so short they become cryptic, it does not serve as documentation for the project and it is very limited in what it can show. It's a kind of project browser of sorts? With Graphviz I can make html image maps and link the graph nodes to the correct place in code, other visualizations or documentation. It has been sufficient to me. Also I can customize easily what I want it to look like (UMLish). All kinds of cross-referencing becomes possible as well. Thought of a kind of project explorer/software intelligence/documentation tool. > > A while ago I proposed to the dev list that we need a 'tooltip' > thing so that the module browser shows the interface of modules > and ideally the types or contracts (these are two distinct, barely > related ideas) of the identifiers that are exported. Jon @ Utah > started working on this and has the 'batch' version ready; I am > not sure why he didn't finish the job. > > But in general, we welcome any and all contributions to the IDE > that people are willing to create. Ideally you should coordinate > such activities on the dev list and best of all someone on the > inside should 'buy' into it. In the end however we want an open > architecture and contributions, that's why Robby put in APIs for > teachpacks and tools for DrRacket. > > -- Matthias Open API would be great for more than one tool. I mean opening up the existing stuff there is, for example the module browser and the check syntax. What kind of API would there be if I wanted to use it so that I don't have to develop my own parsers etc.? Maybe I just have to take a look at the source first. I'll post something on dev. -Markku _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
