Re: [Conzilla-devel] Introduction

[Matthias P. <mat...@na...>]

Hi!

Nice to hear that you found it interesting.
Conzilla is continuosly developing and improving on new fronts, most of
it related to learning environments though.
 
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 14:33, James Michael DuPont wrote:
> My name is James Michael DuPont,
> I stumbled over you project today and it looks quite
> impressive. 
> I am working on an extraction tool of semantic
> information from the gcc :
> introspector.sourcesafe.net.
I took a quick look, is there maybe some comprehensive document
describing the idea behind? I failed to see the whole picture.
Is it about extraction of knowledge from code or meta-programming in
visual interfaces or something completely different I failed to see?

> 
> I have the following questions :
> 
> 1. Are you using a GPL compatible licence?
Actually GPL, we might release it under MPL and LGPL as well if there is
a need.
> 2. Do you plan on supporting c or c++, or is java a
> requirement?
The underlying ideas about what a conceptbrowser is (which Conzilla is
the only example of up to current date) is of course general.
We use java since it is flexible and saves us the hassle to support
several platforms as well allowing us to operate in a webbenvironment
(Conzilla works as an applet).
We do not have the manpower to do a C/C++ version of conzilla. 
(The codebase is approaching 50 000 lines of code and it is developed in
academia with a focus on pre-competetive development.)

> 3. Have you seen the touchgraph graph browser?
Not before, but it seems interesting, I might include it as a plugin in
conzilla as an optional layout utility.
> 4. What graph layout tools do you use, anything
> similar to vcg or graphviz?
There is a plugin that uses graphviz... has to be finetuned though.
> 5. How can you handle huge graphs? (1gb of node data
> and larger)
Conzilla is first hand thought of as a presentation tool and secondly as
a visualization tool, that means it is not intended to present very
large graphs. However we have a side project that intends to take the
dmoz catlog(approximately 650 Mb) and display it as a set of surfable
maps. I.e. some server side solution for dividing up the information
into managable chunks that can be layouted via graphviz or similar.
Dmoz is only an example, we intend to be able to provide some general
library where different datasources can be wrapped and displayed in
Conzilla.
If this interests you I can elaborate more on this.

Feel free to try it out, however not all stuff are included in the
online demo...


Greetings
Matthias Palmer
> 
> I am looking forward to hearing from you,
> mike
> 
> 
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