gramps/NEWS
Don Allingham d34fcd97dd Preparing for 0.2.0
svn: r87
2001-06-04 01:43:11 +00:00

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Version 0.2.0
* New GEDCOM importer. This new importer understands the GEDCOM
file structure, and intelligently parses the file. More
information is extracted from the GEDCOM file. Guessing the
context of information is no longer done, so the data should go
into the right place. The display dialog now displays useful and
interesting information as the file is loaded. The importer
has been checked with file generated Personal Ancestral File,
Brother's Keeper, DISGEN, the GEDCOM Torture test, and even the
sometimes strange output of Family Tree Maker.
* Better support for sources. Source button on the main page, and
sources are entered from the main screen, instead of being about
five layers deep.
* Events, sources, attributes, and addresses can now have both
sources and notes.
* Limited configurability in status bar display. Instead of just a
name, you can have a name, the internal ID and a name, or a user
selectable attribute and a name.
* A user selectable attribute can be displayed on the Edit Person
display along with the gramps internal ID. The attribute is
specified in the preferences settings, and the value is taken
from the person's attribute list.
* Images now load faster. Thumbnail images are created and maintained
by gramps, eliminating the need to rescale images everytime a
gallery is displayed.
* Paper size preference can now be specified in the preferences
dialog. Once this is set, gramps will make this the default for
report generators. Eventually, you will be able to do the same
for output format preference. This button is current disabled.
* Generating slightly better XML. Maintaining compatibility with
the older files.
Version 0.1.5
* Plenty of bug fixes in the report generators and merging due to the
previous addition of date ranges.
* Added PDF file type generation for reports. Depends on the reportlab
package (available at www.reportlab.com). If the package is not
installed, gramps will run, but without PDF generation ability.
* Will use the Python Imaging Library if present to handle images. If
not, it will revert to the old method of using Imagick (convert).
* The user can select an attribute (from the attribute list) to display
on the Edit Person window.
* The internal gramps ID is now displayed on the Edit Person window.
* Marriage types can now be recorded.
* Addresses now use a single date instead of multiple dates, since
dates can now deal with ranges.
* Due to a bug in Python 2.0/GTK interaction, list colors are disabled
for Python 2.0 and above.
* configure script now properly deals with Python include paths,
eliminating the need to hand edit the src/Makefile to get gramps to
run under Python 2.X.
* Photos are now displayed properly again in the Edit Person gallery.
* Family notes are now implemented.
Version 0.1.4
* Implemented date ranges. Valid forms are "from <date> to <date>" and
"between <date> and <date>".
* Better support for partial dates. A question mark can optionally be
used for a placeholder for a year if the year is unknown. Illegal
date formats issue a warning upon an attempt to save the date.
* Start of internationalization (i18n) support. Had to include a single
C file to allow libglade to understand translations. This means that
binary releases are no longer going to be platform independant.
* Start of a generic output formatter for report generation. Currently
supports HTML, OpenOffice (625+), and AbiWord (0.7.13+). Allows
control of paragraph and font styles.
* Added into CVS on sourceforge
* Fixed quite a few bugs
Version 0.1.3
* Allow the user to specifiy their preferred numerical date input format,
either DD/MM/YY or MM/DD/YY on the preferences dialog box.
* Handles file problems a bit more gracefully.
* Use ISO-8859-1 character set instead of ASCII to support languages other
than English. Eventually this should go to unicode, but python 1.5.2
does not have good unicode support. Python 2.X/Gnome 2.X will be the
migration for this feature.
* Handle ANSEL encoding for import and exporting GEDCOM files.
* Fixed a bug in the selection of parents, which did not accept new parents
if previous parents did not exist.
Version 0.1.2
* Allow the user the option to display alternate names in the person
list. Alternate names in the list have an '*' appended to the end
of the name.
* Merge function now gives the user the option of saving the name of
the merged individual as an alternate name if the names are not
the same.
* Added the "Alternate Birth" and "Alternate Death" to the event list,
to allow other birthdates to be recorded. Gramps makes a distinction
between the birthdate/deathdate and the alternates.
* GEDCOM import and export adapted to load/save alternate birth and
death dates. The first "BIRT" and "DEAT" tags are the ones used
for the primary dates, the others are loaded as alternates.
* Added the ability to store web page addresses for each person. From
the edit person page, the "Go" button brings up a web browser to
display the page.
* Fixed a bug in the relationship calculator that caused a traceback
when the person selected was a direct ancestor of the active person.
* Added the suffix field to the alternate name entry on the Edit Person
form.