[YLUG] Parsable Rack Diagrams

[Arthur Clune]

On 7 Aug 2007, at 22:51, Noah Slater wrote:

> Nice link. However, I think that's a vast over-simplification of the
> problem at hand.

I think Pete has a point. Implementing xml -> graphviz shouldn't take
more than a few hundred lines of code. That doesn't really need formal
requirements analysis and all the rest of it. If it's not what you want,
bin it and start again. If it is, bin in and start again.

'Plan to write one and throw it away. You will anyway' - Brooks.

Maybe the answers so far are

a) there's isn't anything existing (*) and
b) suck it and see how it goes

However, it's good to see a stimulating tech discussion on ylug
and interesting to see how different people approach a problem.
That's a good enough reason to keep designing toasters to me.


(*) I did find these though:

http://www.netzoom.net/products/download_free_demo.php? 
gclid=CNK4r6H45Y0CFQxtMAod_Gxurg
(commercial)

http://raivproject.osuosl.org/about (OSS)

There's even a twiki plugin.

http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/RackPlannerPlugin

None of these are what Alex wants, but there's clearly a
demand out there.

Arthur - you can tell I'm stuck and home and full of cold.....