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Developers can handle ASCII. Developers can't handle steel blue versus
cornflower blue.

But seriously, graphics collaboratively authored by developers should,
ideally, be editable via a text file. Otherwise they won't be maintained.

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Devananda van der Veen <
devananda.vdv at gmail.com> wrote:

> Woops. I missed most of this thread in my last reply.
>
> I'm all for using open standard formats and versioning them. However. Not
> being a graphical artist myself, I have found the learning curve on some of
> those tools daunting, eg. inkscape, which means I'm far less likely to
> update a graphic in a format that requires me to go learn that tool first.
> Also, it's awkward to require a Python developer to update an SVG because
> that is "documentation" affected by their commit.
>
> If we go with a common tool/format like libre office/ODF. I suggest we
> adopt some commonalities, and still keep things simple enough that we can
> reasonably expect any developer to update it.
>
> -D
> On May 12, 2015 12:33 PM, "Sean Dague" <sean at dague.net> wrote:
>
>> On 05/12/2015 01:12 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
>> > On 2015-05-12 10:04:11 -0700 (-0700), Clint Byrum wrote:
>> >> It's a nice up side. However, as others have pointed out, it's only
>> >> capable of displaying the most basic pieces of the architecture.
>> >>
>> >> For higher level views with more components, I don't think ASCII art
>> >> can provide enough bandwidth to help as much as a vector diagram.
>> >
>> > Of course, simply a reminder that just because you have one or two
>> > complex diagram callouts in a document doesn't mean it's necessary
>> > to also go back and replace your simpler ASCII art diagrams with
>> > unintelligible (without rendering) SVG or Postscript or whatever.
>> > Doing so pointlessly alienates at least some fraction of readers.
>>
>> Sure, it's all about trade offs.
>>
>> But I believe that statement implicitly assumes that ascii art diagrams
>> do not alienate some fraction of readers. And I think that's a bad
>> assumption.
>>
>> If we all feel alienated every time anyone does anything that's not
>> exactly the way we would have done it, it's time to give up and pack it
>> in. :) This thread specifically mentioned source based image formats
>> that were internationally adopted open standards (w3c SVG, ISO ODG) that
>> have free software editors that exist in Windows, Mac, and Linux
>> (Inkscape and Open/LibreOffice).
>>
>>         -Sean
>>
>> --
>> Sean Dague
>> http://dague.net
>>
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