Re: Introduction and query

mån 2003-03-03 klockan 20.03 skrev Ross Thompson:
> Hello,

Hi!

First of all, sorry for ours (mine and Richards) absence in this thread.
We are currently hacking hard on getting a prerelease of MrProject 0.10
out on Friday. 

> I'm Ross.  (Oops, I already said that.)  I'm a C programmer with > 10
> years professional experience who loves to hack in just about
> anything.  I really love the direction that MrProject is going in,
> I've been using it for a little over a year now, and I think the work
> that you all have done during that time has been most impressive.  I'm
> anxious to start helping out if there is a way in which I can
> contribute productively.

This sounds great and thanks for the kind words regarding MrProject.

>   - Is that still true?
>   - Does anyone on this list have specifications for the .mpp format?
>   - What do I do to claim this territory, so that we can avoid
>     duplication of effort?
>   - If someone else is already working on it, who is that person?  Do
>     they need help?

As what I understand the format in latest MS Project is an MS Access
Database file and we might have luck reading/writing those with the help
of mdb-tools[1]. I haven't had time to confirm this since I haven't had
time and I don't have MS Project to try it out with.

If it is true I'm not sure whether it's true for Microsoft Project 2000
or if it is using a binary format (which I'm pretty sure there is no
documentation on how to read/write).

As for the MPX format brought up in this thread it's currently disabled
since it never got finished and noone has had time to fix it/finish it.

In your case this might be the best way to start, to make writing to MPX
possible in MrProject. Currently only reading parts of MPX-files is
supported.

> Thanks for any feedback on this.  I'd love to contribute in other
> ways, but .mpp file support is currently, for selfish reasons, the
> thing I'm most interested in working on.

I agree that it would be beautiful if we could support reading/writing
the MS Project files. It's currently not the highest on our priority
list though but if someone wants to dig there hands in the dirt and look
at this we'll do whatever we can to support you.

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

[1] http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/
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