Re: Crosslinks and other features nedeed for Progect

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, [email protected] wrote:

> Rick,
>
> You want to make new XML-conduit for Progect.
> In this connection several questions.
> Concerns with anyone further development Progect?

Yes, I intend to do further development, but I also intend to rewrite 
Progect to make it more extensible. That will not happen quickly though, 
I would suggest a year and a half into the future.

Of the three pieces that make up what Progect is (Progect,the conduit, 
PDesk) Progect basically works for most people, and therefore rewriting it 
is not my top priority.

[I also have someone who is looking at making improvements to Progect, 
perhaps in a week or two.]


The current conduit causes too many problems (basically destruction of 
data), it needs to be fixed or replaced. By replacing it with an XML 
conduit, people will not have their data locked in to Progect or PDesk. 
They can use whatever program they want to edit their data. There are a 
lot of good hierarchical editors available to people, and while none of 
them seem to be a direct replacement for PDesk, most people should be well 
served by using them. It may be that they need to use two purpose built 
outliners (Project Management/Text Outlining), but that is better than 
losing their data.

Because of this, replacing the current conduit is the most important task 
right now in my opinion, and all other things need to wait until it is 
done.


I also intend to rewrite PDesk, and I have a project on SourceForge that 
is my intended replacement, it is called "Outliner Framework". It is not 
ready for people to use yet however.


>
> Should like to require the row features.
>
> 1. The Possibility of searching for in Notes.
> 2. Main - a possibility to put cross-references Note<->Note,
> Task<->Task
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> Some Tasks or information Notes are bound not hierarchical but stright.
> These Tasks can be in different branch of the project.
> Wanted have a possibility to install the relationship between Tasks and Notes in Progect and Pdesk without use the external programs.
> Use the external programs for determination of the relationships in impossible
> Pdesk.

I can't really comment on this yet, because I have to focus on other 
things. Certainly anything useful will be added if possible. But perhaps 
not quickly.

>
> What about support of the cyrillics in Pdesk?

My intended PDesk replacement will have full Unicode support, the only 
issue might be what will work with Progect on the Palm.

Once we have the XML conduit working, you should be able to choose a 
desktop outliner program with Unicode support in the meantime.


I am certainly committed to keeping the Progect project going, but I have 
limited time, and I feel that the approach I am taking will benefit the 
most people in the shortest period of time.

If someone disagrees with me, feel free to tell me so, either on this list 
or via a personal email, I guarantee I will listen.

Rick


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> Regards,
> Michael
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