Re: [Gramps-devel] better GEDCOM, gedcomX

[Doug B. <dou...@gm...>]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:47 AM, John Ralls <jr...@ce...> wrote:
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> On Jun 14, 2012, at 9:51 AM, Enno Borgsteede wrote:
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>>> Finally, I thought on wiki, like desktop note-taking, which is also what is currently done via external programs (see above url). I do not want to store too many alternate names, events, hypothesis, etc ...; which will be also printed by reports. So, the simplier way was to have an other related database (agreed, like gedcomx templates/patterns/tables, but for users!).
>> So you think about separating the records from the conclusion world (Gramps) just like GedcomX decided to. I was a little sad about that at first, but I'm slowly coming to understand the reasoning behind that.
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> Actually, that's getting revisited. See https://github.com/FamilySearch/gedcomx/issues/134 -- and join the fun, even if only to +1 some of the suggestions. The more folks who advocate for expanding beyond a pure conclusion model the more likely Ryan is to add the necessary features.
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>> Up to now, better gedcom hasn't created any standard yet, and the first version of GedcomX was highly criticized by Tamura Jones, for good reasons I think, so maybe it's much simpeler to stick to our own Gramps XML.
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> That goes for Ms. Jones, as well. GedcomX is very much a work in progress, and if she has constructive criticism (rather than her usual nit-picking) she should open issues at https://github.com/FamilySearch/gedcomx instead of throwing rocks from afar.

The only correction I have is that (I believe) "Tamura" is a man
living in Leiden, in the Dutch province of South Holland. Although I
have never met him.

> In any case,  I entirely agree that we should not constrain our design of Gramps by any interchange format, nor by the strictures of relational design.

We actually don't stray too far from GEDCOM in most places, being
careful to create structures that can be represented in GEDCOM, if
possible. But as soon as there is a generally agreed upon replacement,
then we can use that as our primary constraint, and hopefully it can
be extended.

-Doug

> Regards,
> John Ralls
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