Hi Geert, All:
At 10:49 PM 8/27/01 +0200, you wrote:
>I have managed to upload the new homepage to sourceForge.
>I hope you all like it.
I do. I do. Much nicer first impression. Good job.
>I think that the code is ready to be released (ready for a 0.1 version
>ofcourse),
>but as this needs admin rights, Sean will have to do it.
>(at SourceForge, there is lots of documentation under: "Site Docs"
>where everything is explained)
>Also submitting news is something I cannot do :(
>
>I hope everybody tried to compile and install genes ...
I've been reading the mailing list with great interest since the end of last
year, but didn't have anything to contribute.
I'm working on a genealogy program in Smalltalk on WinTel for a couple of
years on and off as a way of getting better at Smalltalk. It started out as
just a way to generate a descendants chart, and telephone and address
listing of my mother's side relatives from genealogy data exported from
Brother's Keeper in GEDCOM. It sort of got out of hand, and has grown into
the third cut at a full blown genealogy program. I'll release it as public
domain if I ever get it finished.
I decided to store the data in a database (never used db before) instead of
as all objects in memory. I ran across the following at:
http://www.gentech.org/gdm/
Version 1.0 of the GENTECH Genealogical Data Model was released as an RFC
(Request for Comment) at the Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference
on August 21, 1998. In addition to the Model description, there are two
associated diagrams. In May 2000 version 1.1 of the model was completed.
There were no changes at that time in the diagrams.
The folks that put this Genealogical Data Model together seem to have
addressed quite well many of the issues I struggle with, and many I see
mentioned here.
I think the genes project may want to take a look at it (assuming you're not
way ahead of me) and consider adopting it. I think it may make genes more
robust, and useful to a larger community.
I think the folks that developed this would appreciate the practical
suggestions the genes project could make in trying to use it.
Not to start a language war but I also note there is two Smalltalks
available that run identically on MS Windows/Intel and UN*X boxes:
VisualWorks - production/industrial strength
non-commercial version is free
Squeak - Experimental public domain
I think sharing development experiences in different computer languages but
same application may produce some useful insights to all.
I know reading this list has been helpful to me.
Bye,
--
Richard A. Harmon "The only good zombie is a dead zombie"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] E. G. McCarthy
Spencer, Iowa
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