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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> > lincoln phipps openmutual net wrote:
> >
> > > Jani tiainen wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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)
> > >
> > > 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.
>
> ...was using DDD to track the SIGSEGV and its in GetSystemTimeAdjustment
> so all related to the wrong project start, the out by 1 for the bad
> project start and the wrong week number.

Dummy question: What is DDD?

> > But this is a good start and first free, reasonable PM software that 
> > runs in Windows.
>
>
> ...well there is that new Niku Open Workbench but its quite complex
> and pitched to the top end of the market.

AFAIK it's not "that free", and Planner does most of tasks needed in 
small/medium sized projects.

MS Project importer would be fancy...

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Jani Tiainen