Graphviz for documentation

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Marcin picture Marcin · Nov 19, 2008 · Viewed 12.6k times · Source

I noticed that doxygen uses the graphviz library for creating diagrams. Have you ever used graphviz for generating documentation? Is it worth learning the graphviz for documentation purposes outside the scope of doxygen? Or am I better off to sticking with a standard data modeling package like Visio?

I understand the merits of it as a graphing library, but for trying to represent more complex UML (or similar) is it still worth looking into?

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flolo picture flolo · Nov 19, 2008

The graphviz is very very simple language/format for creating graphs. If the capabilities are enough for you I would recommend it (Its so easy, that I would estimate the time to learn with at most 1 hour).

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