Re: mind mapping/topic mapping/dependency mapping?

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

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