I wasn't thinking of anything as ambitious as an M$ Project clone, but something with enough features to be useful. Most of the basic implementation is easy stuff compared to the kind of things - stochastic optimistation, discrete-event simulation with ipa - I do more regularly. The hard part is bound to be the GUI. I found a sourceforge project called freeproj that has lots of clean C++ code and a basic GNOME interface. I'll investigate that further first. JDL Tor Sigurdsson wrote:
I'm not in for discouraging people, but gosh, you sound like a true programmer ;-) I'd take your estimate, and multiply it by at least 3.1415926595 years ;) You see, good project management software is a white-collar package, meaning it has to have much more than just basic information about the project. There are cost estimates, resource planning, resource distribution, heck, I don't even know all the english words that fairly describe a project management system....
Personally, I'd LOVE to see a *NIX based project management system worth the attention. If you know M$-Project well enough, and think you can mimic it in a short period of time, _PLEASE_ do so :-)
But then, my personal believe is that there would be needed some Big Corporation (TM) involved as a client/test base, and that won't happen just yet. ( soon tho... I hope :-)