README for Mail::Thread::Arc 0.21

=head1 NAME

Mail::Thread::Arc - Generates a Thread Arc reperesentation of a thread

=head1 SYNOPSIS

 my $threader = Mail::Thread->new( @messages );
 my $arc = Mail::Thread::Arc->new;

 $threader->thread;

 my $i;
 for my $thread ($threader->rootset) {
     ++$i;
     my $svg = $arc->render( $thread );
     write_file( "thread_$i.svg", $svg->xmlify );
 }


=head1 DEPENDENCIES

This module has external dependencies on the following modules:

 Class::Accessor::Chained
 Date::Parse
 Mail::Thread	2.41
 SVG
 Test::More

=head1 INSTALLATION

 perl Build.PL
 perl Build test

and if all goes well

 perl Build install

=head1 HISTORY

What changed over the last 3 revisions

=over

=item 0.21	Thursday, 11th December, 2003

	Note in the deps that we need Mail::Thread 2.41 (I released a
	broken thing as	Mail::Thread 2.4, for I am a fool)

	Use the inherited ->new


=item 0.20	Thursday, 11th December, 2003

	Added in maximum_arc_height, plus a link to some sample output.

	Switched the order of drawing (arcs first, messages after) -
	fixes a small cosmetic glitch.
	

=item 0.10	Thursday, 11th December, 2003

	Initial CPAN release
=back

=head1 AUTHOR

Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net>

=head1 COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2003 Richard Clamp.  All Rights Reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.

=head1 SEE ALSO

L<ReMail|http://www.research.ibm.com/remail/>, the IBM Research
project that implements Thread Arcs.

L<http://unixbeard.net/~richardc/mta/> - some sample output, alongside
.pngs created with batik-rasteriser.

L<Mail::Thread>, L<Mail::Thread::Chronological>, L<SVG>