--- Lars Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Great, I posted an annouce to the list of the availibilty of the full source code, http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2003-February/msg00029.html Maybe you can test it? We need to work out a layout api for passing graphs and and layouts back and forth : for the past 8 years, the sources have been uglified, preventing full gpl compliance and preventing full usage. After some emails and convincing to the author, we have the patches to make it fully GPL compliant. Thanks to Gregor Greve for lots of help with it. I have mentioned it on the list a many times, but not really explaining the purpose or the meaning. If you want to review what I have said about vcg here are some mails : http://www.mail-archive.com/dia-list@gnome.org/msg03870.html http://www.mail-archive.com/dia-list@gnome.org/msg04114.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2002-May/msg00129.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2002-June/msg00021.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2002-June/msg00443.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2002-July/msg00024.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2002-July/msg00241.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2002-July/msg00165.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2002-August/msg00210.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2002-September/msg00078.html Here are some mails from other lists: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2002-June/msg00153.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-app-devel-list/2003-January/msg00202.html mike ===== James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ 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
