Framework diagrams

[Aleix Pol]

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Kevin Ottens <ervin at kde.org> wrote:

> 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.
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Well, I'm not so sure about being at a module level would help. We want to
know if we depend on KIOCore or KIOWidgets, I guess.

Aleix
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