[rb-general] new tool: autoprovenance

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 01:43:01PM +0200, Bernhard M. Wiedemann wrote:
> I meanwhile did add dot/svg generation in the devel branch.
> 
> https://www.zq1.de/~bernhard/images/rb/libcbor-j1.svg
> https://www.zq1.de/~bernhard/images/rb/libcbor-j1c.svg
> https://www.zq1.de/~bernhard/images/rb/libcbor-j1d.svg
> https://www.zq1.de/~bernhard/images/rb/libcbor-j1d2.svg
> (there are tooltips when you hold the mouse over a node or edge)
> 
> I'm not yet fully satisfied with how the dot generation and styles are
> sprinkled all over the code, so maybe I'll refactor it to have some
> intermediate representation (e.g. JSON) that gets consumed by a .dot
> generator script.
> 
> Irrespective of the code quality, such visualizations make it even more
> useful,
> so I'm considering to just stracebuild many more unreproducible openSUSE
> packages.

Indeed.  I haven't had the time to try it out, but that is just awesome!
:)

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