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ContextMapper / context-map-generator

A graphical DDD Context Map Generator based on Graphviz
Apache License 2.0
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graphviz (installed by brew) in MacOS is not found by Generate Graphical Context Map, if Eclipse is launched from the Dock #3

Open emeti opened 4 years ago

emeti commented 4 years ago

Environment MacOS Catalina 10.15.3 Eclipse 2019-12 (4.14.0) ContextMapper plugin installed as per instructions graphviz installed via home brew (brew install graphviz) $which dot returns /usr/local/bin/dot Create .cml with an example ContextMap
All works fine, except graphical generation. If Eclipse was launched from the Dock, and I use Context Map - Generate Graphical Context Map it does not find graphviz. However, works OK, when I launch eclipse from a terminal shell where PATH is appropriate (includes /usr/local/bin). This problem seems to be related to https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=490816 The issue is not really in ContextMapper but in the way Eclipse interprets PATH variable in MacOS, reporting it here just as a note for the record in case any new user encounters the same - it took me a while to figure this out. Maybe it could be mentioned in "how to run on MacOS" part of documentation, or just keep this issue as resolved - "eclipse/MacOS problem" for the record.

stefan-ka commented 4 years ago

Thank you very much @emeti for reporting this! I will add this to the documentation so that Mac users are aware of the issue...