petdance/scratch — Issue #826: Auto-generate #include dependency graphs in docs/ at build.
Author: petdance
Created: 2011-11-14 06:13:40+00:00
State: open
Labels: docs, Pri-minor, Sev-low, todo

I think it would be very helpful to have a script to automatically generate #include dependency graphs for parrot at build. This would be very helpful for new developers for getting an idea of how everything fits together.
One way this might be implemented would be to check to see if graphviz is installed during configure, and then if so, generating the graphs during make once everything has been generated by the build tools. If graphviz is not available, a simple indented text file would be nice.

Any reasons why this is unnecessary or impossible?

Originally http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/959 by @jrtayloriv