On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:25:40AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > VCG is apparently an alternative to graphviz, that they plan to link > > into every GNU program, because actually outputting files, so that you > > could run them through other programs is bad; someone, somewhere, > > might actually use that data in a non-approved way. They might forget to > > put a license on their perl script, say. > > Huh?
The FSF doesn't want to output data from GCC, for example, because someone could pipe it into a non-free program and connect them that way. This is why the C backend isn't integrated into GCC, because the whole point of it is so the output can be run into the Sun C compiler which optimizes better. Apparently this is being taken to the extreme; they would like to integrate VCG with make and m4 so that you can get a graphical view of your makefile or whatever. But instead of outputing VCG-format files, which can be manipulated by other programs (say, an ad-hoc Perl script, or a program from Evil-Evil Soft), they want to link in VCG. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Falshe fridn iz beser vi a rikhtige krig. / A bad peace is better than a good war. - Yiddish Proverb
