Hi,
I’m looking for a soft to create ASCII diagram like (or better) https://asciiflow.com/
ideally:
- FLOSS
- for linux
- offline
- no javascript.
I’ve found a candidate ascii-draw and it’s write in Python ❤️ 🐍, but it’s only available as flatpack… :/
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cant you compile it also im sure also in the AUR if ur on a arch based distro
If flatpak is not an option, then you need to specify what packaging platforms are applicable.
Thanks @[email protected] , “Packaging” is not mandatory when creating a software, like it’s was written It could run as .py trough python executable. but here it seem not
Otherwise I’m ok with .appimage format/packing.
I don’t have an answer for you, I’d never heard of ASCIIFlow, but holy shit that takes me back to an oooold piece of DOS software called FormTool. Used to make dungeon maps and character sheets and such with it back in the early 90s. Good times.
The AUR PKGBUILD shows a pretty simple recipe:
build() { arch-meson "${pkgname}-${pkgver//+/-}" build meson compile -C build } package() { meson install -C build --destdir "${pkgdir}" # permission fix chmod 755 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/ascii-draw" }I’ve been seeing arch-meson often used, but haven’t explored what it does. Some day…
Though it’s way more fun to use text specification, like the one referenced by @[email protected]
arch-mesonis a small wrapper script formeson:$ cat /usr/bin/arch-meson #!/bin/bash -ex # Highly opinionated wrapper for Arch Linux packaging exec meson setup \ --prefix /usr \ --libexecdir lib \ --sbindir bin \ --buildtype plain \ --auto-features enabled \ --wrap-mode nodownload \ -D b_pie=true \ -D python.bytecompile=1 \ "$@"
This sent me down a rabbit hole since it’s something I’ve half-considering for a while. I prefer text configuration rather than GUI so I ended up installing graph-easy on my debian laptop:
sudo apt install libgraph-easy-perland made a first attempt to diagram the power setup in my campervan
It’s a perl module but the
graph-easywrapper makes it behave like any other CLI tool. cat or echo the config text to the wrapper and the graph pops out on STDOUTThanks @[email protected] But graph-easy is text to graph. and I’m looking to draw ! so draw to ~graph(ASCII) but it’s a nice program too.
You might be interested in Emacs, it has (among many other things) artist-mode where you can draw with your cursor and obtain good ASCII art
I’m not sure why you wouldn’t want the ASCII-Draw flatpak, but that’s not the only way to get it:
- there’s a Snap
- it can be installed from source
- there’s also an AUR package
But maybe you’re not on Arch, don’t like Snaps (can’t blame anyone for that) and don’t want to install from source (same)? What type of package are you looking for? Only native package? For which distro?
Ideally running the .py
python foobar.pywill be ideal, otherwise an .appimageI think I will have to build it my self (the .appimage ) :)
Any reason for avoiding flatpak?
