Framework diagrams

[Kevin Ottens]

On Wednesday 04 December 2013 19:02:01 Aleix Pol wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Aurélien Gâteau <agateau at kde.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I worked on generating diagrams for KF5 frameworks. The current output can
> > be
> > 
> > browsed here:
> >   http://agateau.com/tmp/kf5
> > 
> > Those diagrams are created from cmake graphviz output of individual
> > frameworks, which is then processed and aggregated with scripts available
> > from
> > 
> > http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=scratch%2Fgateau%2Fkf5dot.git
> > 
> > My initial goal was to create one big diagram, but it is currently way too
> > messy, so I also generated one diagram per framework. For tier1 and tier2
> > frameworks I included the Qt libs, but removed them for tier3 and tier4 to
> > reduce clutter. I think those individual diagrams would be a nice addition
> > to
> > the Doxygen doc of each framework.
> > 
> > I initially used tred from graphviz to reduce clutter, but moved away from
> > it
> > because it was a bit too happy to remove dependencies: for example after
> > running through tred, KCMUtils appeared to have only one dependency:
> > XmlGui.
> > 
> > I am considering generating simpler diagrams by hiding the framework
> > targets.
> > Hopefully it will make the big diagram more readable.
> > 
> > Aurélien
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> 
> Hi Aurélien!
> This is a very nice effort, I already gave it a try and ended up quite
> frustrated. Good work!
> 
> Maybe it would be interesting if we could have also a module dependencies
> diagrams, without the specific libraries inside, that sound like an
> implementation detail in some cases. For example, looking at KBookmarks,
> having an arrow specifying that KService depends on KConfigCore is a bit
> too much?

Yep, definitely. I'd love to have it at the framework resolution, not the 
libraries resolution. Should help quite a bit to see the tiers.

Regards.
-- 
Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

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