thierry-f-78/pla

Simple tool to draw gant charts

About Pla

Is a tool for building gantt charts in format PNG, EPS, PDF or SVG. My original usage of this code is for building automatically LaTeX documents.

Original project page

PDF Gantt chart example

Build

This buils needs include file and libs for

cairo (http://cairographics.org/) Just type "make". Maybe you can adjust path in the makefile.

Command line help

pla -i <filename> [-o <filename>] [-f (eps|png|svg|pdf)]
    [-s yyyymmdd] [-e yyyymmdd] [-id task_id] [-oid task_id]
    [-res] [-did] [-gid]

    -res: display resources
    -did: display id
    -gid: return first free id

Planning describe file

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pla's Issues

Infinite loop when a task('s children) have it'self as a child

I found this problem when I made a typo in the child number.

Here is a minimal test case that results in a infinite loop.

[1] bla
     child 1

But it turns out that the loop also occurs when there is further nesting

[1] bla
	child 2
[2] blabla
	child 3
[3] blablabla
	child 1