From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Markus Heller Subject: Re: Orgmode: exporter for taskjuggler Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:32:22 -0700 Message-ID: <0vaanyvil5.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87y6bklaxr.fsf@saadawi.sbszh.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52638 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ora7v-0007F9-BB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:32:36 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ora7u-0000XX-73 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:32:35 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:43508) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ora7t-0000XS-S8 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:32:34 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ora7t-0000p4-0m for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:32:33 +0200 Received: from 142.103.191.98 ([142.103.191.98]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:32:33 +0200 Received: from hellerm2 by 142.103.191.98 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:32:33 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Christian Egli writes: > Markus Heller writes: > >> Hello Christian, >> >> I'm very interested in using your taskjuggler export from orgmode. >> Unfortunately, I'm on a Windoze box, and getting TJ2 to work is a big >> pain ... However, TJ3 is fairly straightforward, since it's Ruby, so >> I'm wondering, do you have any plans of including support for TJ3 as >> well? I know it's still in alpha, but just asking :) > > I myself use tj2, so the exporter is tested for that. Initially I had > thought that the exporter was also working for tj3 since the differences > in the syntax are supposedly very minor. But I've had reports by users > that the exporter generates code that doesn't work with tj3. > > I just installed tj3 and tested it with a generated tjp file. There are > a number of problems: you need to replace all occurrences of "purge > allocations" with "purge allocate". Also you seem to be required to mark > all milestones explicitly (with "milestone"). Thirdly you need to > change the report definitions. > > - The issue with purge allocate needs to be changed in the exporter > code. For now you will have to search and replace as mentioned above. > > - The milestone issue can be dealt with by assigning the milestone > property to an item. It would be nicer if this just worked if an item > doesn't have an effort property. > > - The problems with reports can be solved by changing the report > definition (via customize) > > I'll have to work with the taskjuggler list to see if and what we can do > about these issues, if we can somehow ease the migration. Christian, thanks for looking into this. After a lot of googling, I actually managed to get TJ2 to run on my box, but it's a pain ... TJ3 would certainly make life easier. I'll look into the issues you mentioned ... Thanks and Cheers Markus