duty-roaster-0.0.90

[Matthias Langer <mlangc gmx at>]

duty-roaster-0.0.90:
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Summary:
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	Duty Roaster is a program for managing and generating duty rotas in a
	userfriendly way licenced under the GPL. You can obtain it from
	http://sourceforge.net/projects/duty-roaster.

Changes:
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	- The programs component for calculating overtimes was redesigned 
	  from scratch and has been completly rewritten. As a consequence, 
	  the program now handels
	  	- two different overtime classes (overtime on normal and on public
		  holidays)
		- user defined overtimes which can be applied manually to any 
		  entry in the shift table

	- It is now possible to edit payed durations and/or add custom 
	  overtimes for allready assigned shifts. Besides, every entry 
	  in the workers schedules may store an additional comment.

	- Extraordinary shifts may have a negative payed duration.  

	- Settlemnts may be exported to html.

	- The program now is able to record and store changes made to rotas. 
	  These changes will be visible in the settlements which 
	  can be exported.

	- One may now define 'shift sequences' for inserting several shifts with
	  one click into the employees schedules.

	- To make manually editing duty rotas more convenient, shifts, which 
	  are yet needed, but not allready assigned are marked.

	- Subwindows should normally pop up centered on the screen from now on.

	- Bug fixes, code improvements, minor gui enhancments (see the 
	  ChangeLog for details).
		
	
Remarks:
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	- If you want to experiment with translations, watch out for
		~/lang.txt if you are working under linux
		PROGRAMM_PATH\lang.txt if you are working under win32.
	  Open lang.txt with a text editor, add your translations and restart
	  the program. Open Misc->(Translation Log) to check if your
	  modifications were accepted. Make sure that the files are encoded as
	  UTF-8, rather than ASCII, ISO-8859, or others.
	
	- A windows version will be available as soon as I have fixed my m$-win2k
	  installation.

	- Save files from older versions are invalid.  
	  
Bugs:
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	- When assigning several night shifts in sequence, the exported settlemnt
	  may not look the way it should. This will be fixed with the next
	  version.

Dependencies:
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	- gtkmm-2.6.2 [http://www.gtkmm.org] or higher. 2.4.x will not work ! 
	
	- at least boost-1.32.0 (1.33.0 is advised) [http://www.boost.org/] 
	  with thread support enabled (gentoo users should emerge boost with 
	  the 'threads' useflag).
	  
	- sqlite-3.2.x [http://www.sqlite.org/].

Planned for 0.0.91:
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	- It should be possible to export statistics about night shifts, holidays,
	  overhours and shifts on weekends for a legal period to html.
	
	- Bugfixes and minor gui enhancements.
	
	
Thanks:
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	- My brother Joseph Lehner for implementig the export to html function
	  and the translation module.
	
	- BALANCE [http://www.balance.at/], an association for physically
	  handicappedd people for funding this project.
	
	- All the others from the open source community for their great work
	  which made this project possible.