Re: Anyone interested in a Perl plugin?

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 15 Jan 2003, pvspam-dialist@hacklab.net wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 07:59, Aaron Trevena wrote:
>> I would be very interested in a perl plugin for dia.
>> I have loads to dia related stuff I am working on and its all perl.
> 
> Now that I think about it, I'd be interested in a Perl plugin as well.
> My Dia-->SQL converter (http://tedia2sql.tigris.org) is written in Perl.
> I don't imagine rewriting it to deal with Dia internal structures would
> be too hard. I think someone said Dia's internal structures mimic the
> XML savefile.

More like the XML savefile mimic Dia's internal structures:)  It's
essentially a dump.

> Would a Perl plugin allow me to add a "Save as SQL DDL" option on some
> menu which then calls my Perl module?

Yes, it's called an export filter, and the Python plugin already allows
those.

-Lars

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