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

[Warner Losh]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:54 AM, David Holland <dholland-tech at netbsd.org>
wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 08:18:47PM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
>  > > > I have seen no presentation of a reasonable way to view the
>  > > > graph in plain text.
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > I have no personal experience with it, but a quick Google search says
>  > > there are programs based on the Graph::Easy library that can
>  > > render DOT files as ASCII.
>  >
>  > And we have to pull what exactly into base or comp to use "Graph::Easy"?
>
> My vote would be to ship it in base as SVG and PDF, and forget the
> text version. This is 2017 and everyone has a PDF reader of some kind
> in their UI somewhere.
>
> (and yes, maybe we ought to be able to read PDFs in base, but that's
> far from a critical issue)
>

Assuming that the generated graph is something that isn't... well...
crazy...

Warner