Re: [Planner Dev] ANN: Planner 0.12, Windows port

[Jani tiainen <redetin luukku com>]

lincoln phipps openmutual net wrote:

> Jani tiainen wrote:
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> > Jani tiainen wrote:
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> > Binary package and package list needed can be found at:
> >
> > http://sunpoint.net/~jtiai/
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> Nice, though I'm up to where I get those SIGSEGV errors
> in KERNEL32!IsBadWritePtr()  (from system32/kernel32.dll)
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> The one thing I did notice was that....
>
> GNOME gconf (and others ?) needs to write to /home/Lincoln
> but that wasn't created (I did a new install of Cygwin).
> Once I created /home/Lincoln then it started.

Note that most of Gnome2 port are still in alpha/beta stage. There is 
many times need to delete lock files for gconfd ($TMP/gconfd/lock or 
$TEMP/gconfd/lock).

> I did get it going for a very short while before Cygwin/something
> borked  my whole Windows machine and I had the Planner displayed
> and noticed that the Week started from "Week 0" and not "Week 1".
> I found this as I changed the project start date to 31st Dec 2004
> (was 31st Dec 1969)
>
> I actually expected the start date to be 1st Jan 1970 for a broken
> date so there are two faults - the Project start date BUT also
> a  more serious out-by-1 error with some things things.

I believe that this is a bit larger problem that appears in other 
systems, like BSD and IIRC in MacOS X also.

> Still a start - it would be nice to have Planner run just like
> Ethereal does but then there are a shedload of dependancies !.

As long as Planner depends anything else than GTK (like bonobo), having 
standalone is a pretty much out of question - except if someone can port 
whole Gnome2 to native win32... =)

I remember that there has been discussions since MrProject that all 
things should be done with GTK, but this is not planned in Planner 
releases. Or is it?

But this is a good start and first free, reasonable PM software that 
runs in Windows.

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Jani Tiainen