Re: XML

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, James Michael DuPont wrote:
> 
> --- 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.

Certainly.  I wasn't aware of its existence.  Perhaps we can steal some
autolayout for autorouting.

-Lars

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