From: Alex R. <sh...@al...> - 2005-02-27 23:16:11
|
On 02/27/2005 05:03:04 PM, Luke-Jr wrote: >=20 > In regards to the elimination of alphabetical tabs... is it possible to e= nable=20 > them with 1.1? One long list makes it harder to locate people by name. Start typing in the people view and you will jump through the right person. Future plans include the ability of splitting the People view in two halves. That way you can e.g. compare Zimmerman and Tsimermann without having to scroll back and forth or having to switch tabs. > I don't know much about Berkley dbs... is it likely that it may become=20 > possible to have a single GRAMPS server with many clients accessing it at= =20 > once? Would version control/history be very complex? I am not sure this will work well with BSD DB, but at this moment the data acces in GRAMPS is abstracted enough so that other database backends are possible. From time to time we get requests to have a MySQL/Postgres backend with server and clients accessing it through the web. This is not impossible, so if somebody has an interest in doing it, please come forward :-) That said, both Don and I on numerous occasions expressed in no uncertain terms that such a thing is not in our immediate focus :-))) We see gramps as the personal program first and foremost, not the database-driven server-oriented client-accessible app :-) While everybody is entitled to their own opinion and interests, this does not mean that we have to necessarily implement everybody's wishes, sorry. As for the version control, my best bet will still be on exporting to uncompressed XML and keeping it under CVS on my own. I hate reinventing the wheel, and trying to figure out version control under binary and arch-dependent format would be just that. The XML is a good format. It's just not too effective, that's all. There's nothing wrong with saving XML every so often, and using it for backup. There's no information loss involved. It's just like a backup procedure when your database is huge: slow, but prudent. Alex --=20 Alexander Roitman http://ebner.neuroscience.umn.edu/people/alex.html Dept. of Neuroscience, Lions Research Building 2001 6th Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 Tel (612) 625-7566 FAX (612) 626-9201 |