Re: [pkg.m] Load order of dependencies

[Andrew Janke]

On 12/19/19 11:01 AM, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote:
> Hi Doug,
> 
> Good point. On the one hand the function is not documented yet (and
> should work with a given package, not the whole db, as well as with
> forge or a given url) so this will go there.
> On the other hand is the issue of plotting directed graphs in octave
> (matgeom have nice tools fort his), in the past I my data2graphviz
> function to get it nice. Inthe plots the arrow should cleary indicate
> a direction, but I need ot explain that the direction of the arrow is
> "depends on", and not "is a parent of". I actually do not know what is
> the standard in CS when showing dependency or inheritance graphs.
> 

In UML, dependency arrows point from the dependent to the dependency.
I've seen this in other contexts, too.

Cheers,
Andrew