README for Mail::Thread::Arc 0.22 =head1 NAME Mail::Thread::Arc - Generates a Thread Arc reperesentation of a thread =head1 SYNOPSIS 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 ); } =head1 DEPENDENCIES This module has external dependencies on the following modules: Class::Accessor::Chained Date::Parse Mail::Thread 2.41 SVG Test::More =head1 INSTALLATION perl Build.PL perl Build test and if all goes well perl Build install =head1 HISTORY What changed over the last 3 revisions =over =item 0.22 Wednesday, 16th February, 2005 Add make_link method (Simon Wistow) Some javascript doodlings to highlight message paths =item 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 =item 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. =back =head1 AUTHOR Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net> =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2003 Richard Clamp. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =head1 SEE ALSO L<ReMail|http://www.research.ibm.com/remail/>, the IBM Research project that implements Thread Arcs. L<http://unixbeard.net/~richardc/mta/> - some sample output, alongside .pngs created with batik-rasteriser. L<Mail::Thread>, L<Mail::Thread::Chronological>, L<SVG>