GTK2 & Win32

[dwarf of SFU]

Developers,

I understand that there is a Win32 port of GTK2, I am wondering if anyone
is planning on compiling MrProject for Win32 (I know, whole new kettle of
fish). Reason is that we are heavy users of MS Project, and there has
been significant interest in Mr Project from IT Management... but we
cannot make the leap to OSS Desktops as yet (Stupid Exchange server...)

Thanks in advance,

dwarf

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[Mikael Hallendal]

Post by dwarf of SFU
Developers,

Hi!

Post by dwarf of SFU
I understand that there is a Win32 port of GTK2, I am wondering if anyone
is planning on compiling MrProject for Win32 (I know, whole new kettle of
fish). Reason is that we are heavy users of MS Project, and there has
been significant interest in Mr Project from IT Management... but we
cannot make the leap to OSS Desktops as yet (Stupid Exchange server...)

MrProject currently depends on GNOME which is much more than just GTK2
so you would have to port significant parts of the GNOME desktop to
Win32 aswell. This might be doable but probably will require large
amounts of time.

As for your switch to OSS Desktops, have you seen the Ximian Connector?
http://www.ximian.com/products/connector/

It allows you to use Evolution together with your Microsoft Exchange
server.

Regards,
Mikael Hallendal

[Kurt Maute]

Post by dwarf of SFU
Developers,
I understand that there is a Win32 port of GTK2, I
am wondering if anyone
is planning on compiling MrProject for Win32 (I
know, whole new kettle of
fish). Reason is that we are heavy users of MS
Project, and there has
been significant interest in Mr Project from IT
Management... but we
cannot make the leap to OSS Desktops as yet (Stupid
Exchange server...)
Thanks in advance,
dwarf

You could use vnc as an interim solution.
http://www.realvnc.com
VNC is similar to PCanywhere or Citrix metaframe in
that it creates a virtual desktop that you can view
from a window on your Windows based PC. So you could
use your Linux box as a server running several virtual
Gnome desktops that are accessible from any PC in your
office.
This should help folks get accustomed to Gnome and
MrProject with minor investment in effort while
retaining their current desktop environment.


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[Rene Auberger]

Hi all,

I understood that Mr Project uses at the moment some gnome stuff which
makes it unpossible to compile it for windows because of the obviously
non-existent gnome on windows. But I asked myself if it would be
possible to modularize Mr Project in a fashion that allows to leave out
the parts that won't work under windows. I never took a deep look into
the code so perhaps someone who is familiar with it can tell a) which
parts of Mr project need gnome and which don't and b) if some useful
parts are still left :-) if the code can be modularized.

I just wanted to let you know my thoughts because I'd like to see a
windows version, too, and I think a lot of people would welcome it.

Regards,
Rene

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

Post by Rene Auberger
I understood that Mr Project uses at the moment some gnome stuff which
makes it unpossible to compile it for windows because of the obviously
non-existent gnome on windows. But I asked myself if it would be
possible to modularize Mr Project in a fashion that allows to leave out
the parts that won't work under windows. I never took a deep look into
the code so perhaps someone who is familiar with it can tell a) which
parts of Mr project need gnome and which don't and b) if some useful
parts are still left :-) if the code can be modularized.

See

http://lists.codefactory.se/pipermail/mrproject-devel/2002-June/000502.html

(ignore the strange date on that mail, the original poster sent mail
incorrectly dated from the June 2018 and Evolution "corrected" the date
on the reply to June 2002. The mail itself was sent a few weeks ago).

for some specific details. To answer part (a) of your question, it
appears that libmrproject can be built with glib and libxml2 (and all
their dependencies). The mrproject module, on the other hand, is very
dependent on Bonobo stuff, so you need to wait for that.

Malcolm