Re: [taskjuggler-devel] *** Request via TaskJuggler Web Site ***

From: Chris Schlaeger (cs_at_kde.org)
Date: Wed Feb 25 2004 - 12:57:40 CET


From: Chris Schlaeger <cs@kde.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:57:40 +0100
Message-Id: <200402251257.41776.cs@kde.org>
Subject: Re: [taskjuggler-devel] *** Request via TaskJuggler Web Site ***

Hi Dean,

thanks for you efforts to bring TJ to the BSD world.

On Wednesday 25 February 2004 11:51, povey@wedgetail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Firstly thanks for Task Juggler, it is a brilliant tool, and has saved my
> life!
>
> I just completed an initial port of Task Juggler to FreeBSD (it is winding
> its way through the FreeBSD ports commit process as we speak).
>
> I thought I should share a couple of issues. The first is that I had to
> patch tjx2gantt to support earlier Perl5 versions. use warnings, is not
> portable, and setting -w in the #! is preferable if portability is your
> goal. Secondly, the current version does not work with PostScript::Simple
> 0.05, so I had to patch it. This is mostly the fault of the
> PostScript::Simple maintainer who made an incompatible change, but is an
> issue worth mentioning.

tjx2gantt is becoming a real pain. It's not actively maintained, but we don't
have any replacement yet.

> Another issue was a shell script that used
> function foo. I believe foo() is more portable, although in general shell
> functions are not portable at all.

I've fixed such a problem recently. I assume you were using the 2.0 version.

> One issue was that while the configure script goes to some pains to make
> sure all the dependancies for tjx2gantt are there, it still goes ahead and
> installs it even if they aren\'t! You probably should install
> conditionally.

I'll have a look at this.

> Lastly, I had trouble building the documentation, as the db2html and db2ps
> tools you used haven\'t been ported to FreeBSD.
>
> I can supply you with some patches for the above problems if you are
> interested.

Yes, please send them to me.

Chris

>
> Cheers.
> Dean.
>
> Name : Dean Povey

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