wiki: DrawingGraphs feature
Martin Geisler
mg at lazybytes.net
Wed Nov 4 12:42:37 CST 2009
Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> writes:
> On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 11:27 +0100, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:20, Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> wrote:
>> > The mercurial wiki in the past provided the absolutely astounding
>> > capability to draw very nice looking graphs, as described on
>> > DrawingGraphs [1].
>> >
>> > Unfortunately, this seems now to be broken.
>> >
>> > For example, UnderstandingMercurial [2] has multiple translations,
>> > like the FrenchUnderstandingMercurial [3], but on the latter, the
>> > graphs seem to be defunct.
>> >
>> > What is the plan for these graphs in the wiki? Could this feature
>> > be repaired?
>>
>> I looked into it, but it seemed like 'dot' (the graphviz tool that was
>> used to produce these) needed lots of X libs as dependencies, which
>> made me a little scared of installing it on the small VM we have. Matt
>> looked into that as well, at one point, IIRC. Maybe we could setup
>> some web service with the graphviz running on another box, or maybe
>> Matt can expand the VM a little.
>
> The VM is only about half-full now that your home dir is cleaned up.
> Anyway, I've installed the necessary packages and fixed the image
> scaling, graphs are back:
>
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/RussianUnderstandingMercurial
Thanks a lot! This is a super feature of the wiki :-)
--
Martin Geisler
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SMPC (Secure Multiparty Computation) to Python. See: http://viff.dk/.
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