README.md

Makumba Data Definition to Entity-Relationship diagram

A tool to extract an Entity-Relationship (ER) diagram from Makumba Data Definition (MDD) files.

(See the example for the details)

Setup

Requirements

• Unix operative system
• Python 3
• Virtualenv package

Steps

1. Create a virtual environment:

python3 -m venv env

2. Source the virtual environment:

source env/bin/activate

3. Install grapviz:

pip install graphviz

Run

Source the virual environment (if not done already):

source env/bin/activate

Run the script to generate the drawing code:

python mdd2er.py <path-to-mdds-directory> [depth-limit (default=10)]