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Re: Graphviz 7

#3
Great tool and nice to see such active development on it!

From 3.0.0 to 7.0.0 just during this year, though.. ? I guess very few are depending on the library interfaces which I imagine are being broken, or do the major version increments just signify nothing of importance?-)

Re: Graphviz 7

#4
One of the better graph visualization tools!

Which tool do you people use most often for graph visualization? I kind of linger between networkx, Gephi, graphviz and d3.

Re: Graphviz 7

#5
post #3

Great tool and nice to see such active development on it! From 3.0.0 to 7.0.0 just during this year, though.. ? I guess very few are depending on the library interfaces which I imagine are being broken, or do the major version increments just signify nothing of importance?-)

It seems to me that they bumped the major version for every breaking change in the changelog. I guess that is in strict compliance with semantic versioning but indeed it looks strange.

Re: Graphviz 7

#6
post #5
post #3

Great tool and nice to see such active development on it! From 3.0.0 to 7.0.0 just during this year, though.. ? I guess very few are depending on the library interfaces which I imagine are being broken, or do the major version increments just signify nothing of importance?-)

It seems to me that they bumped the major version for every breaking change in the changelog. I guess that is in strict compliance with semantic versioning but indeed it looks strange.

Wild, seeing SemVer actually used properly.

Re: Graphviz 7

#7
post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems to me that they bumped the major version for every breaking change in the changelog. I guess that is in strict compliance with semantic versioning but indeed it looks strange.

Wild, seeing SemVer actually used properly.

You don't need to do a new release for every checkin. You can make a series of breaking changes and only then declare a new release, bumping the version number.

After all, it took (at least) 21 years to get from 0 to 3.0.0

There's absolutely no reason for 2 major bumps 11 days apart.

Re: Graphviz 7

#8
From the readme:

"This project has only 3 of its founders remaining as volunteer maintainers, and support is limited and may end soon. If you can help fund to a more formal foundation to continue this project, please contact north on graphviz org."

Re: Graphviz 7

#9
I liked GraphViz a lot, but eventually got frustrated with its layout algorithms and default look and feel. I would switch to Mermaid wholesale if it could render SVGs without requiring a browser engine.
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