From: Benny M. <ben...@gm...> - 2010-03-08 13:33:33
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2010/3/8 Doug Blank <dou...@gm...>: > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 4:39 AM, jerome <rom...@ya...> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> Looking at glom, my first impression was a Gramps filiation (same family !) : http://www.glom.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page >> >> Then I thought on census informations, address and XML import/export. Gramps also imports/exports vcard, csv. >> >> There is a DTD >> http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/glom/trunk/glom/glom_document.dtd >> >> Nick has generated a census gramplet/report (addon), which is "limited" (not on features, rather database design and interface limitations). >> >> Richard Taylor also started to work [1] on a Certificate Manager application that he intend to use to enter all his birth/marriage/death and census records. >> >> Years after years, there is often the same questions [2]. >> It is documented into Gramps, but users have theirs habits (PAF or Reunion, Hérédis etc ... have theirs owns address storages and GEDCOM export) >> >> Maybe a bridge (import/export, merge a part of dtd) between Gramps and glom ? > > Jerome, > > Interesting project, and one could probably build an exporter/importer > to move Gramps data in/out of their format. This would be a lot of > work just to get a certificate framework (and building the certificate > would still be a lot of work in Glom, I think). But I think you see > what we are aiming for: an easy to use GUI for advanced users to > construct their own data entry system. Interesting? Looks a bit like the microsoft access+VB I remember from the 90s no? The problem is never in making the tables or making a quick UI to add to the tables. The problem is in the logic to make it all work together. If you look at the bug list, the devil is in all the little details. That is why working on an established codebase, Gramps, is worthwhile. Working on integration with Glom seems like a waste of time to me. The idea of certificates is to use a different interface to add data to our datamodel. Preferably, an interface that can be scripted a bit, like our filter rules code. Benny > -Doug > >> [1] http://www.nabble.com/Broken-abstraction-for-RelLib-and-GrampsDb-t3157777.html >> >> [2] http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Why_residence_event_and_not_Address%3F >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval >> Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs >> proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. >> See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Gramps-devel mailing list >> Gra...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-devel >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Gramps-devel mailing list > Gra...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-devel > |