On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 15:38, Ross Werner wrote: > p.s. while I'm on the subject of CVS, this is slightly off-topic but I > remember some BYU people working on Open Source genealogy software back in > the day ... my [extended] family works on these big huge genealogy files > and needs some easy way to coordinate their work. I often contemplated > using CVS or something like it, but again I'm totally ignorant of such > things. They used to use PAF, but I think they've switched to some new > program because it was easier to coordinate. Has anybody done anything > similar or have ideas of what they could use?
CVS for genealogy? There's something I haven't heard of before. Not a bad concept, though. <shameless plug> I've been working off an on on a genealogical management tool over the summer. It is coming along slowly, but surely, and probably even slower now that school has started. It is similar to PAF, but uses a relational database model to store the data, and accesses the database via plugins. Right now, the only one that is implemented is a embedded database plugin (SQLite), but eventually, I will have a plugin for, say, the MySQL client, so several people could be hitting the same database at once. A Linux version is available, with Windows coming soon. Again it doesn't do that much, but it has the potential to, once I get the time. Aw, who and I kidding, it will probably go the way of all the other red-headed step child open source projects out there. At least it will have one user though -- me. On a related note, if anybody is interested in practicing their CSS/PHP/HTML skills, I'm looking for somebody to maintain the web site. </shameless plug> Thanks for listening. Hyrum -- Need an Open Source Genealogy tool? Help write one! http://sourceforge.net/projects/openancestry ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
