Re: [LAF-devel] Re: Design

[David M. B. <da...@da...>]

BTW, Samuel, Robert, and Wesley, if you are interested in being added to 
the project as developers, let me know what your SourceForge username 
is.  You all seem to have good ideas, and I have no problem adding you 
to the project.

Thanks,
David

Samuel G. Shirley wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I had joined this nailing list a LONG time ago and even forgot about the
> project until somebody starting email again. :-)
> 
> I'm glad that there is interest in working on this project again.
> 
> 
>>>I wouldn't mind leading it if people understood that this would be a
>>>learning experience for me.
>>
>>Well, we can "co-lead" it if that sounds more palpable. ;)
> 
> 
> It would sort of be a learning experiece for me to. I'm a programmer by
> trade myself. I've been out of the industry for a couple of years because
> of the economy. I also haven't written anything good in a while. But I've
> writtten mostly a few small projects since college (Dec. 1999). Nothing
> with a group of people. So I'm looking to gain some experience and get my
> feet wet again.
> 
> 
>>>>One thing we might want to do is scope out other linux-based
>>>>geneology programs out there and make sure there isn't already
>>>>something that 1) already does everything we need and we just don't
>>>>realize it, or 2) could be forked to be PAF-compatible. I'd rather
>>>>not duplicate work unless it's necessary. =3D)
>>>
>>>I need Paf and GedCom compatability.  I think it would be great if we
>>>can fork something to be PAF compatible, however, I'm not overly
>>>optimistic about this.
> 
> 
> I agree with this. I've already tried a couple and I am not happy. I tried
> Genes (genes.sourceforge.net) and Gramps (gramps.sourceforge.net). Genes
> is not in a good working stage. Gramps looks very pretty and works pretty
> well. But there are too many quirks in it for me to be happy with it.
> Frankly, it's a pain. I like PAF. I personally would like to see a clone
> of it in Linux. This would also serve to make those moving from Win to
> Linux much happier.
> 
> 
>>Question: how important is it to you to have PAF file-format=20
>>compatibility? GEDCOM is certainly no problem, but the PAF database=20
>>files themselves have changed format in every version of PAF and I=20
>>don't know if they are documented anywhere... certainly we could=20
>>reverse-engineer them if it's worth it to.=20
> 
> 
> I think its important to have PAF compatibiilty. PAF is a big program with
> a large following. Our program should be able to AT LEAST import those
> files.
> 
> 
>>GUI: Of course, we need a GUI. This would be layered on top of the core,=20
>>and thus we avoid mixing GUI and core logic.
> 
> 
> Again....PAF cloning would be nice.
> 
> 
> 
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