GanttProject 2.0 Release Notes

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

QUALITY

• We did our best to make quality GP 2.0 as high as possible. However, we have no quality control department and the real testing of the new GanttProject will start only after the release.
• We did some profiling and improved performance of some operations (namely, project loading and scrolling Gantt chart). However, other operations may be slow even when working with relatively small projects. Particularily, we are aware that PERT chart has critical performance problems

Known problems

If you can't start GanttProject

• It is possible that GanttProject doesn't start if it is installed in directory with name containing umlauts (and probably other non-ascii symbols) Bug report 1407292
• It is possible that you see a splash screen and then GanttProject hangs, or splash screen and main window are empty. Try to disable antialiasing in your graphic card settings

If you work with multiselection

• Clipboard operations with multiselection and editing properties of multiselected tasks are dangerous. We plan to fix these problems in the future versions

If you feel that GP works slowly

• We are aware of bad performance of PERT and resource charts and plan to optimize them in the future versions.

DISTRIBUTIONS

• The absolute prerequisite is a correctly installed Java 1.4.x or 1.5.x.
• ZIP distribution includes launchers for Windows (.bat file), Linux (.sh file) and MacOSX (.app file) and is considered as the main distribution.
• We provide an installer for those 80% of our users who run GP on Windows, we have tested it on few Windows systems but we do not guarantee that installer will work correctly on your Windows machine even if java is already installed. In case of any troubles, please try ZIP distribution before reporting problems.
• We provide a disk image (.dmg) for MacOSX. It was tested on a couple of Macs but still in case of any troubles, please try ZIP distribution before reporting problems.
• Linux users are considered to be experienced enough to be happy with ZIP distribution

COMPATIBILITY

• We claim that GP 2.0 is compatible with GP 1.x, which means that GP 2.0 should read project files created in GP 1.x and should recognize all supported options, with few exceptions listed below.
• We don't think that GP 1.x is compatible with GP 2.0.
• The release may be incompatible with options/project files written by the earlier previews

Still supported but requring some handcrafting

• We do support custom stylesheets for HTML and PDF export but you need to edit some files to make them visible for GP. Please refer to custom stylesheets documentation^?.

-- DmitryBarashev - 16 Jan 2006