I'm not sure I believe that the current dot layout is or should be a reliable part of the public API. if there's a better layout, use it. Unless maybe devs are somewhere consuming the .dot files themselves to understand the graph? I hope not, but you never know.
On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM Bear Giles <bgi...@coyotesong.com> wrote: > The maven-dependency-plugin has a '.dot' option but because of the layout > it's useless for anything other than the most trivial dependency trees. I > know we can't replace existing functionality but this could be added as > "dot2", or a 'variant" property could be added to the mojo. > > There are some few obvious tweaks but some of them hit the limitations of > the graphviz > library, or at least my understand of it. However I think I have something > very close to a good alternative to the standard layout - I just need to > ask the graphviz people as question first. > > I've attached a sample pom and the generated png file. This is the pom I > use for an application that creates a document listing the database > metadata for multiple databases. > > Bear Giles > [image: tree2.png] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elh...@ibiblio.org
