Re: [Planner Dev] Porting to Windows

[Jani tiainen <redetin luukku com>]

Jon Wilkins wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 18:13, Jani tiainen wrote:
>
> > Richard Hult wrote:
>
> ...
>
>
> > That would ease up building. Now I have hacked a lot in Makefiles to get 
> > all necessary thing to get into compiled.
> >
> > I'm doing port same way as it is done in Cygnome2. First you run 
> > configure, after configuration you patch Makefiles etc. to get compiled.
> >
> > Hopefully someday this could be done without such a hassle.
> >
> >
> > > Thanks a lot for looking into this.
> >
> > No problem - I have great interest to get Planner up and running in 
> > Windows environment.
>
>
> Jani,
>
> If you want help testing windows patches let me know... As a PM that
> uses Windows at work and Linux at home, MSProject is often the only
> reason I dual-boot the home machine back into Windows...   Whilst
> Planner is nowhere near as feature rich as Project (yet) there are some
> of my projects where I could actively use it.
>
> And having Planner work on *both* would be a real plus long term. 
> Afterall, there's no suggestion MS would ever port Project!!  Projects
> like Ethereal & Firefox (to name just two) have proved that cross-dev'd
> apps can be achieved (though I've no idea how close the Win & Lin
> codebases are on either project).
>
> jw
> ----
> As a footnote to my first posting on this list, I'd just like to say
> "hi" to all.  I've long hoped for a decent PM tool that didn't lock you
> into MS operating systems or lock you into using MS Exchange for
> collaboration or MS SQL for a database backend etc,,.  The idea of
> backending a project plan onto an open source database is fantastic...
> I've build many little web tools in the past but being unable to link
> project plan data straight in has always been annoying.  I can see so
> many of my tedious tasks (invoicing, reporting) being automatable...
> giving me, as a PM, more time to do other stuff. Anyway, it's great to
> see this project is in active development and hope there's some way I
> can lend the occasional hand!


Well I managed to compile, and get running Planner in Cygwin + Cygnome2 
environment. For some strange reason I have "View" and "Actions" menus 
completely empty. Any particular thing I should look for fixing?

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Jani Tiainen