On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, James Michael DuPont wrote: > > --- Lars Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, James Michael DuPont wrote: >> > >> > My biggest concern with the dotty program is that we are supporting >> > non-free software. Creating a direct dependancy on a software that >> is >> > not compatible with the GPL. The software would have to be >> distributed >> > with dia to use this feature. >> >> As long as Dia don't require dot to compile/run, there's no problem >> with >> interaction. Having the ability to call out to dot when available is >> a >> good thing. > > Would you consider also directly supporting the VCG tool? > it produces modest results, and is GPLEd. We need at least some basic > support for multiple graph file formats. The VcG layout algorithm can > be directly embedded into Dia.
Certainly. I wasn't aware of its existence. Perhaps we can steal some autolayout for autorouting. -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| Hårdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
