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