On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Pablo Pérez Fernández wrote:
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> Hi there,
>
> My name is Pablo Perez, I am a student of Computer Engineering in Gijon,
> Asturias (Spain). I'm currently taking my first steps with Dia, and
> first, i'd like to encourage you to keep working on such a good program
> for linux.
>
> The reason of this mail is that I've visited the Dia Webpage, and i
> saw that you're working in more types of Diagrams for Dia. By this
> day, you use dynamic libraries to use more diagrams, and i'd like
> to suggest the development of a text-based Dia Language to develop
> on-the-fly diagrams, such as PERT, Gantt or SSADM (for example). That
> helps developers to create a diagram system for each specific need
> without having to wait on the development of that diagram as
> a dynamic library. I suggest to use Dia with an interpreter engine
> that would use that Dia Language and show the appropiate windows and
> contents for each diagram element.
I don't actually work on dia myself any more, but lots of people are, and
in recent versions you can use an xml-based language to describe diagram
objects.
> I also wanted to ask you if you currently have a PERT library to
> desing PERT diagrams. If so, please tell me.
No. Not that i know of.
/ Alex
