[Doxygen-develop] Working on adding PlantUML class diagrams

[johnk <jk...@ar...>]

I'm interested in (and have started) modifying the Doxygen code to allow 
for the generation of class diagrams using PlantUML, but I wanted to get 
some input before I got too far in.

My current thinking is just to have the diagrams generated as an aside 
to the Graphviz diagrams.  I mostly wanted a tool to automatically 
generate nice UML class diagrams from my code.  I'm already using 
Doxygen and it has a framework for doing this already. PlantUML does not 
support image mapping so the nice links that are generated in Graphviz 
simply aren't available.

That said, others probably have a different opinion on how best to 
utilize PlantUML.  As such, I'm open to suggestions as to how best to 
utilize the tool inside Doxygen (beyond the already available embedded 
diagrams).

I should probably mention that I'm only inclined to add support for 
PlantUML class diagrams - it's not really suited for the other types of 
diagrams that Doxygen generates.