Deps charts

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 4, 2009, at 13:54, C. Florian Ebeling wrote:

>>> Wasn't there a chart with the whole dependecy graph someplace,  
>>> for all
>>> ports?
>>
>> I doubt it, that would be huge and would quickly become stale.  
>> There's
>> just the port-rdeps script which produces dependency charts on  
>> demand.
>
> well, the ability to generate any branch is even better, I'd say:
>
> port-rdeps -d py-simplejson|dot -Tpng -o py-simplejson.png && open
> py-simplejson.png
>
> quite nice, should become more visible.

I have not tried port-rdeps yet, but I had written a PHP script for  
this purpose. It requires a web server with PHP loaded, and Graphviz.  
You can download it here:

http://ryandesign.com/tmp/portviz.tar.bz2