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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: A much simpler way of handling dependent tasks
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:47:53 +0100
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Do you think it makes sense to integrate this code into org-depend.el?

- Carsten

On Jan 26, 2009, at 10:16 PM, John Wiegley wrote:

> I've been wanting a simple method for managing dependent tasks for  
> some time now, and only now did it occur to me that I could just  
> implement a much simpler method using your current blocking mechanism.
>
> The attached file, confusingly named org-depends.el, implements the  
> following scheme:
>
> 1. Any TODO which has incomplete child TODOs is blocked.
>
> 2. If a parent TODO has the ORDERED property, it's children must be
>    completed in order.  Undone siblings block later siblings.
>
> 3. Blocked items are greyed out in the agenda list.
>
> John
>
> <org-depends.el>