Re: pipe/export

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, aaron trevena wrote:
>> From: Andrew Ferrier <andrew.junk@new-destiny.co.uk>
>> On 2002-07-16 at 14:10 -0700, Tim Ellis wrote:
>>
>> > > Dia would have a configuration directory (something like
>> > > /usr/share/dia/exportpipes.d).
>> >
>> > Overridden by ~/.dia/<thesame>
>>
>> Maybe --- this would be a 'not much extra effort' feature. But
>> tedia2sql and similar would be system-wide, would they not? I
>> suppose a user might want to write their own, extra, wierd
>> add-on.
> 
> I have been working on a few Utilities dealing with charting and the main
> tools have been GraphViz, Dia and GD. I already have a handy dandy code
> to dia tool (next release could be this weekend! and I mean it this time,
> Lars, Ekkehard, etc)

GD?

> For my next trick I am adding GraphViz support to autodia (hence the
> delay of the 1.2 release) and I plan to start converting GraphViz to Dia
> and vice-versa.

Cool!  I've just been playing with Dot (making nice control flow graph
automagically), and I'd love to be able to interface that with Dia.

> in this light, as well as dia2sql, dia2code, etc I'd be very intersted in
> some kind of mechansim to slurp data from Dia itself withou resorting to
> stone-age languages like C and Python ;)

Uhm... what kind of stone-age language would you rather use, then? :)

-Lars

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