Live data from Hacker News

Graphviz 7

gitlab.com

91–95 of 95 posts

Re: Graphviz 7

#91
post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

/me points at Firefox

A bit unfair, no? Firefox switched to the "new major version every 6 weeks (or so)" only because Google did that first with Chrome, and people started thinking "Chrome is so much better because it's in version 17 and Firefox is version 3".

> Is version 465 very different from version 464 though?

Re: Graphviz 7

#92
post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A bit unfair, no? Firefox switched to the "new major version every 6 weeks (or so)" only because Google did that first with Chrome, and people started thinking "Chrome is so much better because it's in version 17 and Firefox is version 3".

> Is version 465 very different from version 464 though?

As soon as: a) you precisely define "very different" AND b) versions 464 and 465 of Firefox and Chrome are available, we can continue discussing :)

Re: Graphviz 7

#93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You can make a series of breaking changes and only then declare a new release That means you need to postpone the breaking changes for a while, kind of bunching them together. Many projects do that, but it also incurs some cost. > After all, it took (at least) 21 years to get from 0 to 3.0.0 It's possible that they did not implement semantic changes in the strict sense before and included small breaking changes int…

Right, we are witnessing a project switch to semantic versioning that did not have it before. I don't know when semantic versioning was invented, but it only became prominent in the last decade. Graphviz is from the 90s.

Graphviz is from earlier than that -- mid to late '80s, I'd say. The first paper appeared in Software Practice and Experience in 1988.

Re: Graphviz 7

#94
post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really. Draw.io is browser only. I like my diagramming tool offline.

There is an offline version: https://www.diagrams.net (they had to change their name from draw.io recently). There is a download button right on the main page.

Which looks to be an Electron app, so there's a browser engine doing the rendering. Can I save a diagrams.net/drawio-desktop drawing into a file, and convert that file into an SVG in a lightweight batch job?

Re: Graphviz 7

#95
post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is an offline version: https://www.diagrams.net (they had to change their name from draw.io recently). There is a download button right on the main page.

Which looks to be an Electron app, so there's a browser engine doing the rendering. Can I save a diagrams.net/drawio-desktop drawing into a file, and convert that file into an SVG in a lightweight batch job?

Yes
Post reply on HN