Mail-Thread-Arc README


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NAME

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Mail::Thread::Arc - Generates a Thread Arc reperesentation of a thread

SYNOPSIS

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 my $threader = Mail::Thread->new( @messages );
 my $arc = Mail::Thread::Arc->new;

 $threader->thread;

 my $i;
 for my $thread ($threader->rootset) {
     ++$i;
     my $svg = $arc->render( $thread );
     write_file( "thread_$i.svg", $svg->xmlify );
 }




DEPENDENCIES

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This module has external dependencies on the following modules:

 Class::Accessor::Chained
 Date::Parse
 Mail::Thread	2.41
 SVG
 Test::More

INSTALLATION

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 perl Build.PL
 perl Build test

and if all goes well

 perl Build install

HISTORY

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What changed over the last 3 revisions

0.22 Wednesday, 16th February, 2005
	Add make_link method (Simon Wistow)
	Some javascript doodlings to highlight message paths




0.21 Thursday, 11th December, 2003
	Note in the deps that we need Mail::Thread 2.41 (I released a
	broken thing as	Mail::Thread 2.4, for I am a fool)

	Use the inherited ->new




0.20 Thursday, 11th December, 2003
	Added in maximum_arc_height, plus a link to some sample output.

	Switched the order of drawing (arcs first, messages after) -
	fixes a small cosmetic glitch.

AUTHOR

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Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net>

COPYRIGHT

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SEE ALSO

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ReMail, the IBM Research project that implements Thread Arcs.

http://unixbeard.net/~richardc/mta/ - some sample output, alongside .pngs created with batik-rasteriser.

Mail::Thread, Mail::Thread::Chronological, SVG


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