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The Valgrind Massif charting is a great example of taking a really useful command line tool and using various UI elements to present the information in an easy to understand manner. However the dependency on BIRT for Valgrind seems a bit excessive, when considering it is only used for the Massif charting. I've been working on providing the same functionality using SWTChart (http://www.swtchart.org/). It's a lightweight alternative that uses just SWT and I've been able to duplicate the functionality provided by BIRT. - The look of the BIRT chart can be reproduced almost identically - The data point listeners to link to the snapshots/source code can be reproduced by attaching a listener to the chart area itself - We'd export a chart to PNG as opposed to SVG This can be viewed here : http://fedorapeople.org/gitweb?p=rgrunber/public_git/org.eclipse.linuxtools.git The next steps would be to open up a CQ to announce the dependency on org.swtchart and to get that library into Orbit. From there we could probably commit the changes. The deadline for CQs intended for Juno is February 3rd.
In the interest of full transparency, this was motivated by a consumer (Red Hat) wanting to trim dependencies.
feature/valgrind/no-birt in org.eclipse.linuxtools git repo is the branch representing these proposed changes. org.swtchart has also been accepted into Orbit.
When do you intend to move this to master, Roland?
This work (feature/valgrind/no-birt) has been merged into master.
Can you rename the org.eclipse.linuxtools.internal.valgrind.massif.birt package? I think it is better to remove birt from the package name too, because we are not using it anymore.
I'll be sure to do this as well. Seeing as it's internal, there shouldn't be any issues with this change in non-valgrind plugins.
