Re: [Gramps-devel] Suitability of GRAMPS source code to other purposes

[Don A. <dal...@us...>]

On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 20:25, Niko Suave wrote:
> Hello.  I am looking to write a program to view family trees on the web.
> I was wondering if one of you that is familiar with the code could tell me
> how easy it would be to adapt GRAMPS' GEDCOM importing code to be used
> in another project?
...

> In any case, basically I'd like to know how hard it would be to 
> write a function that takes a GEDCOM file as input and returns some sort of
> parsed representation I can work with without any dialogs etc etc using
> the GRAMPS code.


It probably wouldn't be too hard. The core database library (RelLib.py
and Date.py) is pretty much independant of all Gnome/PyGTK/X type of
stuff. The GEDCOM reader could probaby be modified without too much
effort. It contains a little bit of Gnome related stuff to update the
progress windows, but it is fairly isolated, and can probably be removed
without too much difficultly.

The conversion probably wouldn't be trivial, but it should serve as a
pretty good starting point.

-- 
Don Allingham
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