On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 20:07, Mike wrote: > I have a requirement to create a picture of all the dependencies > of my servers and their applications. I don't want to draw the > picture/diagram nor do I wanto maintain that image. What I want > (unless someone has a better idea) is to create a file of > dependencies (A: B C D -> B/C/D all depend on A) and have a > script generate a file (a dia file, an xfig file, something) > that describes these dependencies and the have the program (dia/xfig) > read the file, create the little boxes with their associated > labels, run an auto-layout algorithm to spread out the little > boxes, and then generate either a postscript, HPGL, dvi, jpg, > png, etc., file that I can print and hand to my manager. > > Anyone have any thoughts how to do this easily?
Dia and associated programs only does very primitive autolayout. You probably want dot, part of the graphviz package. -Lars _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia
