Tels wrote:
On Thursday 13 January 2005 19:43, Jakob Voss wrote:
My main
interest in this area lies in _easily_ documentating network
plans, flow charts, schematics and other things in that area. IMHO
having such a feature in a wiki would be very usefull.
Then please call it <easygraph> or something like this. I'd better like
a plugin for all kind of graphs and GraphViz is obviously the best one.
I have to disagree.
First, I didn't know that there is a graphviz plugin (or anyother
extension, I overlooked extension), and if there is a name-clash, I will
rename my plugin.
Ok, if there is also <graphviz> I don't mind. Thanks for your work anyway.
Second:
Even knowing the graphviz plugin, I would redo the work I did for several
reasons:
* output: I don't like these types of graph-images. Beside that I like
ASCII/HTML output over PNG etc, IMHO the output of graphviz looks ugly.
Well, uglyness is a very subjective argument that may fit to both.
* I find the graphviz language too complicated in the
same sense that HTML
is too complicated over the normal wiki language. Compare the example
from
http://www.wickle.com/wikis/index.php/Graphviz_extension with one of
my more complicated examples, I think my formatting is visual more
distinct. (Of course, both languages should be "equivalent", e.g. it
should be possible to write a converter - which means the language the
graph is written in will be irrelevant)
If you draw complicated graphs, graphviz is complicated but not more
compicated than any other language, including yours. But there is a
limit in graphviz: you cannot embed Wikilinks! So if your plugin
produces clickable images like Erik's Timeline that would be really useful.
Greetings,
Jakob