IMPORTANT: flexvizgraphlib project MIGRATED to BirdEye

[Daniel]

Dear all,

as announced, we migrated the code from all active projects of the
flexvizgraphlib googlecode
site to the birdeye googlecode site.

The URL for the new site is:

http://code.google.com/p/birdeye/

It works in the same way, except that it host more projects.

All relevant code from flexvizgraphlib went into the "RaVis" module.

In RaVis, you will find two Flex Projects:

1. "libRaVis"
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This containes the merged code from graphLayout and vgComponentLib.
It needs to be imported as a Flex Library Project in FlexBuilder.
Currently it requires flexlib.swc as a dependency (which is included
in the libs subfolder).

2. "RaVisExamples"
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This contains some example applications (and will contain more in the
future).
Right now in the "src" subfolder there are two demo applications:
RaVisExplorer.mxml and RaVisExplorerV2.mxml.

The latter is basically the same as the old vgExplorerNG.mxml.

We will continue to work on the example apps to exist in a more
incremental way
(very simple to very complex), since the current ones are quite
complex.

IMPORTANT ISSUES:
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* Change your local sandboxes from flexvizgraphlib to birdeye
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Everybody who has a local sandbox copy of any flexvizgraphlib project
needs to remove the old sandbox and checkout a fresh copy from the
new project. If you have local modifications, make sure you do not
delete
your local files, so you can migrate your local changes.

For those of you, who have comitter access and created branches
in the project, we will have to discuss a migration strategy. In any
case
we will not delete the flexvizgraphlib project before all issues are
resolved. However, CAVA folks will no longer update anything there.

* Old subfolders obsolete and removed!
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For those who already checked out the projects from the NEW site
(AFAIK this
concerns at least Jonathan):

Until today, RaVis already contained code from graphLayout, this used
to be
in the following subfolders:
- src
- examples
These folders are now obsolete and have been removed.

Everybody who checked out the project from these folders needs to
also
remove the local sandbox and checkout again using the new structure.

* Some components will be removed from the library
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libRaVis currently contains ALL components that were in graphLayout
and vgComponentLib. However, some things from vgComponentLib are not
too suitable for the code library (particularly very UI related
things). They will
eventually be moved out of the library, possibly into some of the
application
projects (or possibly into a separate library).
In any case we will announce it, but be careful when using items like
VGAccordion.mxml and CurrentNodeLabel.mxml, etc.

Feel free to ask any questions.

Cheers,
Daniel