xm.tracker 0.1.1

A time tracker based on the concepts of gtimelog

Introduction

This package provides a user interface to track time based on the concepts of gtimelog. When starting your working day you start a timer. Each time that you change to a different tasks you log an entry of what you were working on.

In eXtreme Management we book our hours on tasks. This tracker allows you to select a number of tasks from the list of tasks that are assigned to you. The selected tasks are shown in the time tracker.

Changelog for xm.tracker

0.1.1 (2008-09-16)

• Removed egenix-mx-base from the install_requires of setup.py as it is not easy_installable. Improved docs/INSTALL.txt to explain about how to install mx.DateTime.

0.1 (2008-09-16)

• First version. [maurits, reinout, jladage, simon]

xm.tracker Installation

To install xm.tracker into the global Python environment (or a workingenv), using a traditional Zope 2 instance, you can do this:

• When you’re reading this you have probably already run easy_install xm.tracker. Find out how to install setuptools (and EasyInstall) here: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall

• Install mxBase from Egenix; this is needed as we use mx.DateTime. It is not easy_installable, so get it here: http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/

  Your operating system may have a package already that you can install. On Ubuntu it is python2.4-egenix-mxdatetime.

• If you are using Zope 2.9 (not 2.10), get pythonproducts and install it via:

  python setup.py install --home /path/to/instance

  into your Zope instance.

• Create a file called xm.tracker-configure.zcml in the /path/to/instance/etc/package-includes directory. The file should only contain this:

  <include package="xm.tracker" />

Alternatively, if you are using zc.buildout and the plone.recipe.zope2instance recipe to manage your project, you can do this:

• Add xm.tracker to the list of eggs to install, e.g.:

  [buildout]
  ...
  eggs =
      ...
      xm.tracker

• Tell the plone.recipe.zope2instance recipe to install a ZCML slug:

  [instance]
  recipe = plone.recipe.zope2instance
  ...
  zcml =
      xm.tracker

• Install mxBase from Egenix. On Linux/Max you can use a buildout recipe:

  [buildout]
  # mx-base has to be the first part
  parts = mx-base ...
  ...
  [mx-base]
  recipe = collective.recipe.mxbase

On Windows we have seen this fail. In that case, you can get an installer here: http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/

Your operating system may have a package already that you can install instead. On Ubuntu it is python2.4-egenix-mxdatetime.

• Re-run buildout, e.g. with:

  $ ./bin/buildout

You can skip the ZCML slug if you are going to explicitly include the package from another package’s configure.zcml file. Products.eXtremeManagement does this.