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[Sidnei da Silva <sidnei.da.silva@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello Launchpadders,
>
> I got a bit distracted at the Soyuz mini-sprint today and decided to
> finish a thing I started at the Wellington sprint in January: I want
> to visualize the relationship between our top-level packages.
>
> You might remember that we wanted their to be a clear dependency flow
> between packages: e.g. lp.app -> lp.bugs -> lp.registry ->
> lp.services. In this model, we'd have a very simple DAG for our
> dependencies. You might also be aware that we are not there yet.
>
> I thought it would be interesting to see how far away we are, and
> maybe to have a way of getting a visual sense of any progress we make.
>
> I've got a branch of Launchpad that tweaks the Makefile and adds new
> targets 'lp-clustered.svg' and 'lp-clustered.dot' that will generate a
> picture and graph data for Launchpad's import dependencies. The branch
> is at:
>    bzr branch lp:~jml/launchpad/visible-dependencies
>
> I'm happy to talk about how this works and the decisions I made, but
> this email is too long already.
>
> To make the files, you'll need the *excellent* package "snakefood":
>    sudo apt-get install snakefood
>    http://furius.ca/snakefood/
>
> To view the dot file, I would recommend using dotviewer from pypy. Get it with:
>    svn co http://codespeak.net/svn/pypy/trunk/dotviewer
>
> dotviewer depends on pygame:
>    sudo apt-get install python-pygame

Looks better than Django to me. I guess that's a compliment.

-- Sidnei