Re: FYI, using Asciidoc Diagrams to generate diagrams for READMEs and docs

[Robert Munteanu <ro...@apache.org>]

On Mon, 2020-08-31 at 16:35 +0200, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 2:40 PM Robert Munteanu <ro...@apache.org>
> wrote:
> > ...Regenerating existing ones is probably a
> > large investment, but adding new diagrams should IMO use this kind
> > of
> > mechanism...
> 
> +1
> 
> Note that I was a bit optimistic about which diagram engines work out
> of the box in a Maven build, IIUC that's just ditaa and PlantUML -
> which already go a long way however.
> 
> Maybe some other engines can be added just with Maven dependencies,
> but I tried many of them and they were looking for the corresponding
> binaries in the PATH.

Ack, there are limitations, but it's still way better than checking in
rendered images in git and then not having the source to update.

Thanks,
Robert