Re: do we still need ocamldot in the ocaml-tools package?

[Sven Luther <sven@powerlinux.fr>]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 07:51:41PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> the ocamldot program is currently part of the ocaml-tools package.
> For those of you who do not know it: it constructs a dependency graph
> of modules in the dot format which can then be displayed by the
> graphviz tools. This fucntionality is provided by ocamldoc since
> some time (since vesion 3.05 of ocamldoc, according to the ocmaldot
> home page). Invocation is slightly different, with ocamldot you would do
> 
> ocamldep *.ml | ocamldot > dep.dot
> 
> while with ocamldoc you need to have compiled the interfaces of the 
> modules, and then you do an
> 
> ocamldoc -dot -o dep.dot *.ml
> 
> The graph layout seems to be slightly different too, but besides this
> the fucntionalities are the same as far a I can see. Hence, I plan to
> drop ocamldot from the next uplaod of ocaml-tools. Are there any
> objections?

Seems fine to me, i guess this means that ocamldot is no longer really
maintained anyway, right ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther