Re: XML

[James Michael DuPont <mdupont777 yahoo com>]

--- Lars Clausen <lrclause@cs.uiuc.edu> 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.

mike

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James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

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