[Uml-devel] [Bug 67059] Automatic layout of diagrams

[Oliver Kellogg]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67059


Oliver Kellogg <okellogg at users.sourceforge.net> changed:

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--- Comment #10 from Oliver Kellogg <okellogg users sourceforge net>  2012-01-23 18:07:21 ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> I saw that this autolayout stuff hasn't been added to recent umbrello code.
> Does anyone know what the reasons are ?

Yes, mainly because it's not really working yet; see comment #6:
> [...]
> It doesn't work very well yet so it might not make it into the
> final release.

IMHO there is a problem with the way this is implemented, it programs directly
into graphviz/dot using internal undocumented calls which may change between
versions. I believe it would be cleaner to just open a pipe to the "dot"
program.

Further, I seem to vaguely remember Jonathan mentioning there was an issue with
the license of graphviz/dot, see comment #7:
> [...]
> To activate, remove the "dnl" from the start of the lines following the line
> "dnl Not GPL compatible" in configure.in.in.

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