Re: ITP: graphviz

[Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org>]

On 25-Jul-00, 15:37 (CDT), Edward Betts <edward@debian.org> wrote: 
> Description: a set of graph drawing tools including a web service
>  Graph drawing addresses the problem of visualizing structural information
>  by constructing geometric representations of abstract graphs and networks.
>  Automatic generation of graph drawings has important applications in key
>  technologies such as database design, software engineering, VLSI and
>  network design and visual interfaces in other domains. Situations where
>  these tools might be particularly useful include:
>  .
>    * you would like to restructure a program and first need to understand
>      the relationships between its types, procedures, and source files.
>    * you need to find the bottlenecks in an Internet backbone - not only
>      individual links, but their relationships
>    * you're debugging a protocol or microarchitecture represented as a
>      finite state machine and need to figure out how a certain
>      error state arises
>    * you would like to browse a database schema, knowledge base, or
>      distributed program represented pictorially
>    * you would like to see an overview of a collection of linked documents
>    * you would like to discover patterns and communities of interest in a
>    * you're debugging a protocol or microarchitecture represented as a
>      finite state machine and need to figure out how a certain
>      error state arises
>    * you would like to browse a database schema, knowledge base, or
>      distributed program represented pictorially
>    * you would like to see an overview of a collection of linked documents
>    * you would like to discover patterns and communities of interest in a
>      database of telephone calls or e-mail messages
>  .

  * You want to pictorially analyze a Debian control file Description
  for duplicate clauses.

Steve