pharox-dependency-visualizer

This tool is built on top of great existing software like Roassal and Pharo's internal dependency tools.
This tool helps understand/untangle dependencies.

Install

Metacello new
  baseline: 'PharoXDependencyVisualizer';
  repository: 'github://ironirc/pharox-dependency-visualizer:main/';
  load.

Should work in Pharo 11 and 12

Simple example on Zinc en Zodiac packages

To start exploring you could try:

DvRsWorkScope exampleWithZincAndZodiac

This gives you something like: Observe there's a cycle between Zinc-HTTP and Zinc-Resource-Meta-Core.
Should Zinc-Resource-Meta-Core depend on Zinc-HTTP?

Interact to get more insight:

• Hover a node: green lines show de packages depended upon, red lines show packages depending on hovered node
• If other nodes turn orange (while hovering), there's a cycle somewhere
• Right click to open the already well known dependency browser
• Right click to browser the package in system browser
• Click node to temp highlite it in yellow ( just a temp marker without further functionality)

Example on Zinc en Zodiac packages with grouping

DvRsWorkScope exampleWithZincAndZodiacGrouped

TO-DO

• Better default layout (force based?)
• Immediate indication of cycles (now already easy to detect on sight)
• Hovering line to display actual dependencies
• Grouping/Ungrouping manipulation directly in graph
• Update without re-opening the window
• Add/remove extra packages to/from scope directly in graph.
• Make graph persistent (already some code in place)
• ...
• long term: Create baselines?