Re: Orgmode: exporter for taskjuggler

[Markus Heller <hellerm2@gmail.com>]

Christian Egli <christian.egli@sbszh.ch> writes:

> Markus Heller <hellerm2@gmail.com> 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