Finding dependencies

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 16, 2008, at 18:55, Michael Franz wrote:

>> I may as well make it available to everyone now:
>>
>> http://www.ryandesign.com/tmp/portviz.tar.bz2
>>
>> To use this, you need a web server with support for PHP. I use PHP 5;
>> not sure if PHP 4 would work. You also need Graphviz. You can specify
>> at the top of graph.php where your Graphviz executably is stored.
>> Note that it doesn't work with the MacPorts graphviz port right now;
>> some pango error... It does work with my Graphviz 2.14.1 binaries
>> which are available here:
>>
>> http://www.ryandesign.com/graphviz/
>>
>> It also works with the older Pixelglow version of Graphviz:
>>
>> http://www.pixelglow.com/graphviz/
>>
>> Note that portviz doesn't cache any information right now, and the
>> port command takes time to return information, so it can take several
>> seconds or even a minute or longer for large graphs to be shown.
>
> How hard would it be to integrate this with ports?  Would it just  
> need to be converted to tcl?  I think that just generating the dot  
> file would be enough, not need to generate the graphic.

I've thought about integrating this into MacPorts base before. I  
can't speak to how hard it would be. I can say that it would be hard  
for me to do so. My tcl and my knowledge of MacPorts base is still  
insufficient for the task. So I wrote it in PHP, which I know very well.