Really! As some of you appear to have noticed, I've been a little busy this year and haven't found much time work with Gedcom.pm. I apologise for that. In order to make amends to a degree I have spent some time in the last few of days closing all the bugs reported in both github and RT, adding some extra features, and I have just released Gedcom.pm 1.17.
The notable improvements include better handling of adding notes, support for UTF-8 and the addition of a grammar for 5.5.1. 5.5.1 is only 13 years old and is designated as a draft standard. Its title page says "It must not be used for programming of genealogical software while in draft." So the standard may change markedly between this draft and the (no doubt imminent) final version. As such the 5.5.1 grammar is included for the early adopters. Caveat emptor! When I first designed Gedcom.pm I made it so that multiple grammars could be used. Now there are multiple grammars. How prescient I was! Although I have worked through all the tickets on github and RT, I have no doubt missed matters which have been reported elsewhere. If there is anything which needs attention, please feel free to open a ticket on github. Enjoy 1.17. -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net
