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being able to output dependencies
Hello,
I about I add the possibility to output the dependency graph of all installed packages in a way that can be used by external tools such as dot from graphviz so that people can visualize the dependency graph?
Regards, F.
On 05/25/2012 01:26 AM, Francois Berenger wrote:
Hello,
I about I add the possibility to output the dependency graph of all installed packages in a way that can be used by external tools such as dot from graphviz so that people can visualize the dependency graph?
Regards, F.
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That sounds like an interesting and potentially useful project. It can fit into the odb project if you like, but I'm hesitant to include it inside the odb.ml file. As a separate program, no problem. Also, only doing this for installed packages doesn't need odb, only findlib, but it may be a good destination. Try starting by drawing the dep graph of all packages in a repo.
E.
OK, the first step will be to have a real graph in the Dep module of odb.ml. I may do this after my "user re-definable actions" proposal. Then, we may become able to update /re-install packages more efficiently or to uninstall some properly.
Should I try to display the dependency graph from odb or just output the graph to a user-given filename and output the command to convert it to a png file? Then the user will use whatever png viewer he likes to see it.
I think the latter is better as it does not imply any dependency to the graphviz toolsuite neither any image viewer.