Don
At the very least it would be good to see your screen shots. The more ideas
we see the better.
Richard
On Saturday 16 December 2000 16:29, you wrote:
> Several months ago, my dad and I started a family web site
> (http://members.home.com/allingham-capp) with genealogy information on
> it. I wasn't happy with any of the web page generators, so I wrote my
> own in perl. It took GEDCOM information that my dad exported out of
> Family Tree Maker, and produced web pages in the format that we wanted
> (it merged the data in with our own template). The perl script got more
> complicated, and perl code has a tendancy to get rather ugly after a
> while. At the same time, I kept finding errors in the GEDCOM files that
> I needed to correct.
>
> I switched to python, which was a bit more maintainable for me, and
> ended up putting a glade/gnome front end on it so I could explore the
> information, and fix some of the problems.
>
> The recent activity on the genes list, including the screenshot mockups
> comments, have kind of convinced me that I should put this up so that if
> anyone likes any of the ideas, they could be used.
>
> Just as a note: This is not a competitor to genes. It is my own hack
> which I never intended for anything but my own amusement and purposes.
> It runs on a flat file format (XMLish, because it is easy to parse), not
> a database. The internal data model is a simplified distortion of
> GEDCOM, and it can import a subset of GEDCOM. It is incomplete and full
> of bugs.
>
> However, if anyone is interested in looking at it, I could probably be
> convinced to make it available.
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