NAME

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

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 );
}
            
          

DEPENDENCIES

This module has external dependencies on the following modules:

            

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

INSTALLATION

            

              
              
perl Build.PL
perl Build test
            
          

and if all goes well

            

              
              
perl Build install
            
          

HISTORY

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

Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net>

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.

SEE ALSO

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