On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Claus Reinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Assuming I get it included, is there any features in particular you'd >>> want to >>> see in there? Note that if I do have it produce visualisations, they'll >>> be >>> static images as part of an analysis report rather than being >>> interactive. >> >> I'd like the ability to show individual module dependencies, and then >> to collapse modules in one package to just the package, so I could >> "zoom out" and see how the packages relate to each other. By >> "package" here I mean the "A" in "A.B, A.C, etc." >> >> It seems like it would be fairly simple to use Language.Haskell.Parse >> to turn a set of modules into a graph, and then something to massage >> that and give it to dot. > > If you wanted to go down that route, try using 'ghc --make -v2' > and translate that dependency graph to dot. > Yep, this is a pretty easy route and there is already a tool for doing the translation: ocamldot. Don't be fooled by the name, it works on Makefile's dependency information and in particular works well with the output from ghc. Back in the days (like six years ago) I used it on ghc itself. I also extended it so that different directories were grouped together inside a box to get a better feel for the intended structure of the program. ocamldot can be found here: http://www.research.att.com/~trevor/ocamldot/
I should add that I didn't find the information the least bit helpful so my general recommendation is to try to find some other method to help understanding code. All the best, Josef _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
