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- From: lacey@egr.msu.edu (Mark M. Lacey)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: Project planning tool for X Window System available via FTP
- Message-ID: <lacey.728158993@msuinfo>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 18:23:13 GMT
- Organization: Michigan State University
- Lines: 92
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-
- Dear Netters:
-
- I've seen a few requests for project planning tools here in
- comp.software-eng, so I talked to a few classmates of mine from last
- semester, and we've decided to make the tool we wrote for our software
- engineering class publicly available via FTP. The tool supports
- entering and saving of task information (task name, description,
- relevent dates, etc.). Project files can be loaded later for
- consultation. The tool graphically generates both PERT and Gantt
- charts on screen, and has an option to generate LaTeX source for Gantt
- charts and task sheets.
-
- All of the documentation generated for the project during the semester
- (over 300 pages printed) is also distributed in LaTeX form. This includes:
-
- Weekly Status Reports
- Project Plan
- Requirements Specification
- Preliminary Design
- Detailed Design
- Top-Level Code
- Testing Specification
- User's Manual
- Presentation Materials
- Final Report (with updated user's manual and addendums to
- other documents).
-
-
- Xplan has been tested on Sun SPARCstation IPC's, IPX's, 1's, 1+'s,
- 2's, and 10's. It requires the XView libraries and header files to
- compile.
-
- It is currently available at:
-
- cpsacs.cps.msu.edu (35.8.56.92)
-
- in pub/xviewsrc, with the name xplan-1.0.tar.Z.
-
- Please read README, INSTALL, and COPYING, all included in the tar
- file. As stated in README, this was a project for a class --- none of
- the authors, and nobody else at MSU, has any intention of making
- further modifications or bug-fixes. Feel free to make your own
- enhancements and bug-fixes, and make those publicly available (but
- read COPYING, which contains the GNU GPL to understand what
- circumstances you can distribute it in).
-
- The user's manual to refer to is the one included in the final report.
- I have a feeling there may be a missing .rs or .fig file here or there
- (I'm not sure, but some omission of that sort might have occured). In
- any event, we all hope you find xplan useful.
-
- Mark M. Lacey
- Brian Gaubert
- Richard Malingkas
- Mike Marlow
-
- The man-page follows:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- XPLAN(1) USER COMMANDS XPLAN(1)
-
-
-
- NAME
- xplan - a project planning tool
-
- SYNOPSIS
- xplan
-
- DESCRIPTION
- xplan is a tool for project planning. It allows the user to
- enter task information, including task dependencies, and
- generates both PERT and Gantt charts, along with task sheets
- for the project being planned. It must be run under some X
- Windows window manager. To start xplan, just type 'xplan'
- at the prompt. There are no command-line options. All
- interaction happens through the graphical user interface
- (GUI).
-
-
- FILES
- xplan's project files end in the suffix .prj.
-
- AUTHORS
- Brian Gaubert, Mark M. Lacey, Richard Malingkas, and Mike
- Marlow
-
- xplan was created as a project for CPS 470 (Software
- Engineering) at Michigan State University, Fall semester
- 1992, with Dr. Betty Cheng as instructor and Gerald Gannod
- as TA. It is distributed under the GNU General Public
- License (please see the file COPYING, which should always be
- distributed with the software).
-