[cmake-developers] [CMake 0014163]: Graphviz compacting external libs to make the graph more readable

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=14163 
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Reported By:                Richard Ulrich
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   14163
Category:                   CMake
Reproducibility:            N/A
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2013-05-22 09:53 EDT
Last Modified:              2013-05-22 09:53 EDT
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Summary:                    Graphviz compacting external libs to make the graph
more readable
Description: 
With
SET(GRAPHVIZ_EXTERNAL_LIBS OFF)
I get a great overview of our product and its dependencies. 
But when I enable GRAPHVIZ_EXTERNAL_LIBS, the whole thing just explodes with >
30 external dependencies, each with the full absolute path.

It would be really valuable to compact all the dependencies that belong together
into one node with a custom name.
My first thought was to post process the dot file, but why not handle that in
the generator itself.

How about the following. It contains pairs with a name for the node and a regex
for what it captures:

SET(GRAPHVIZ_EXTERNAL_GROUPS
  boost .*libboost.*\.(so|lib|dll)
  hoops .*hoops.*\.(so|lib|dll)
  acis  .*Spa.*\.(so|lib|dll)
  teigha .*TD_.*\.(so|lib|dll)
)


Before I start implementing, I'd like to have some feedback.
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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2013-05-22 09:53 Richard Ulrich New Issue                                    
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