Re: Documentation and diagrams

[Ville Ilvonen <ville.ilvonen@unikie.com>]

On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 10:35 AM Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 10:25:16AM +0300, Ville Ilvonen wrote:
> > On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 4:11 PM Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is> wrote:
> >
> > > Actually, this looking more closely at the stack trace, this is more
> > > likely to be it not having a writeable XDG_CONFIG_HOME or HOME
> > > directory.  So you could try setting those to temporary directories in
> > > the build.  Something like
> > >
> > >         export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$(mktemp -d)"
> >
> > I think it was a good idea to test but unfortunately it did not work out:
> >
> > ''
> > export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$(mktemp -d)"
> > echo $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
> > drawio in.drawio --export --output test.svg
> > jekyll build --disable-disk-cache -s $src -d $out
> > ''
>
> I was just looking at the draw.io packaging in Nixpkgs, and I discovered
> that there's already code in there for running headless draw.io! [1]
> But it's not exposed outside of this pandoc filter package.  I'm going
> to see if it works, and if it does I'll see if we can pull it out to the
> top level, as a drawio-headless package or something.
>
> [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/misc/pandoc-drawio-filter/default.nix

I was also starting to think that the X env is required.
X virtual framebuffer is a great idea. Good catch with pandoc approach
to generate drawio to pdf in xvfb.