Re: setup.ini dependency graph?

[David Stacey <drstacey at tiscali dot co dot uk>]

On 04/11/13 17:30, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 11/4/2013 11:00 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 09:32:10AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
> > > I've got a few cleanups, and then I'll share the result.  It's already
> > > helped me generate a few re-packaging requests I plan to post over on
> > > cygwin-apps...
> >
> > Is this packagable?  It sounds pretty interesting.
>
> Probably. I could put it in cygutils, or standalone (like the new 
> cygcheck-leaves package is a standalone utility).
>
> > Would it be crazy to generate this and make it available on the cygwin
> > web site?  Or would the dependency graph generation overload
> > sourceware.org?
>
> The basic processing to generate a .dot file is pretty simple really; 
> just string comparisons and hash manipulations. But as Ryan already 
> pointed out, generating the actual graph in whatever format, is 
> probably compute intensive.
>
> See attached...

My goodness - you have been busy! You've taken some hacky kludgy perl 
that I threw together in five minutes flat and turned it into a proper 
programme. Tip of the hat to you, sir...

Dave.


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