Objections to converting bsd-family-tree to a dot file

[Warner Losh]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 9:15 PM, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been attempting to maintain bsd-family-tree (available as
> share/misc/bsd-family-tree) as a plain text file across 3 different
> operating systems: NetBSD, DragonFly, and FreeBSD.
>
> It has to be maintained by hand, and can't be parsed to do anything
> more useful (like turn it into an image). In addition, formatting
> differences between the different projects have led to minor
> differenes that are difficult to merge.
>
> I'd like to turn this into into a dot file
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOT_(graph_description_language)) which
> is a more natural format for a graph.
>
> Any objections? It isn't used for much beyond documentation so
> changing the format isn't expected to cause any negative effects.
>

Show Me The Money!

That is, show me how it will be rendered in the new format and we can talk.
A dot format would definitely be useful in addition to what we have now
(which includes release dates with useful sources). My concern is that it
will render a useless hodgepodge that obscures the main narrative.

Warner