Hi,
I’m looking for a soft to create ASCII diagram like (or better) https://asciiflow.com/
ideally:
- FLOSS
- for linux
- offline
- no javascript.
I’ve found a candidate ascii-draw and it’s write in Python ❤️ 🐍, but it’s only available as flatpack… :/
The AUR PKGBUILD shows a pretty simple recipe:
build() { arch-meson "${pkgname}-${pkgver//+/-}" build meson compile -C build } package() { meson install -C build --destdir "${pkgdir}" # permission fix chmod 755 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/ascii-draw" }
I’ve been seeing arch-meson often used, but haven’t explored what it does. Some day…
Though it’s way more fun to use text specification, like the one referenced by @fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org
arch-meson
is a small wrapper script formeson
:$ cat /usr/bin/arch-meson #!/bin/bash -ex # Highly opinionated wrapper for Arch Linux packaging exec meson setup \ --prefix /usr \ --libexecdir lib \ --sbindir bin \ --buildtype plain \ --auto-features enabled \ --wrap-mode nodownload \ -D b_pie=true \ -D python.bytecompile=1 \ "$@"
I’m not sure why you wouldn’t want the ASCII-Draw flatpak, but that’s not the only way to get it:
- there’s a Snap
- it can be installed from source
- there’s also an AUR package
But maybe you’re not on Arch, don’t like Snaps (can’t blame anyone for that) and don’t want to install from source (same)? What type of package are you looking for? Only native package? For which distro?
Ideally running the .py
python foobar.py
will be ideal, otherwise an .appimageI think I will have to build it my self (the .appimage ) :)
I don’t have an answer for you, I’d never heard of ASCIIFlow, but holy shit that takes me back to an oooold piece of DOS software called FormTool. Used to make dungeon maps and character sheets and such with it back in the early 90s. Good times.
You might be interested in Emacs, it has (among many other things) artist-mode where you can draw with your cursor and obtain good ASCII art