QuikGraph or FastGraph

[TarekSalha]

Hi @KeRNeLith, I see, that you are working very commited on both libraries. Which is the one, that you would recommend to go with for my current project? Are you doing some kind of transition?
Cheers, Tarek

[KeRNeLith]

Hello @TarekSalha
Hum to be honest I never commited to FastGraph project :-s
I wasn't aware of this one, but now I am! It seems it's a fork of my repository without having used the GitHub fork button which has cut the link with this repository.
I don't know who's the owner of FastGraph and the exact goal behind. For sure I'm commited to maintain QuikGraph as much as possible.

So this is not really a transition on my side :-D

I still have plan to update some stuff to add .NET 5+ target and get rid of some old stuff no more usable. I'm just unsure about all the propers ways to do so.

So if you consider chosing between QuikGraph or FastGraph I would say it's up to you ^^'. I don't really plan for now to move to another project since I worked hard on that one!

Note that QuikGraph is still the basis of GraphShape.

[TarekSalha]

Hi Alex, Thanks for the swift reply. I was also wondering, why both libraries look so similar. 😅 I really like your library and currently test it for traversing graph structures in job execution scenarios (like execute job a first, then b and c in parallel, etc. ). I do not yet completely understand what graph shape does. It seems like an extension to quikgraph? Or what is it’s purpose? Regards, Tarek

[KeRNeLith]

Yeah that's the reason of similarities! Note that the readme kind of still point to my linked content. I just saw that a massive find and replace commit was applied to replace QuikGraph by FastGraph.

I'm glad the library is fitting your needs ;-)

Oh that's pretty simple! But maybe the readme of the project is not clear enough. Basically GraphShape is a library that provides in the "core" package graph layout algorithms. And the "Controls" package provides a WPF control to display graphs in a WPF application using the various layout algorithms from the core library. In this context QuikGraph is used for the storage of graph. I invite you to maybe try the sample application (here is a like to latest release at the moment, see GraphShape.Sample.zip). The sample stays simple but I think is enough to get an idea of the libraries.

PS: I edited your previous message by removing the trailing part which seemed to have been added by automatic message reply for the sake of readability.