From donaldpage at mac.com  Fri Feb 17 08:45:10 2006
From: donaldpage at mac.com (Donald Page)
Date: Fri Feb 17 08:45:17 2006
Subject: [Gramps-tk] Project activity
Message-ID: <43F5D366.9050703@mac.com>

Hi, I was wondering if anyone was doing anything with the project? I 
downloaded the latest version to see where things were at and it looks 
really promising. I needed to get the CVS version rather than 0.13 to 
have any success in importing a GED file.

Donald
From dblank at brynmawr.edu  Fri Feb 17 10:26:45 2006
From: dblank at brynmawr.edu (dblank@brynmawr.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 17 10:26:54 2006
Subject: [Gramps-tk] Project activity
Message-ID: <48751.68.37.169.92.1140190005.squirrel@webmail.brynmawr.edu>

> Hi, I was wondering if anyone was doing anything with the project? I
> downloaded the latest version to see where things were at and it looks
> really promising. I needed to get the CVS version rather than 0.13 to
> have any success in importing a GED file.

Donald,

Thanks for the inquiry. I think that you are right that this looks
promising. As the instigator of the project, I've decided to try a
different tack. Originally, I proposed separating the gramps GUI from
everything else, and the main gramps maintainers accepted some of my
proposals, but not everything necessary to make a Tkinter interface work.
(They largely misunderstood my goal as attempting to get gramps to run on
Windows which was never my goal. But the ability to run under Windows was
a side-effect of a good, modular, design.)

I then made the current setup that attempted to sit on top of the main
gramps code, and sneakily replacing the bits that had to be fixed to deal
without gtk, gnome, and the rest. But gramps is under constant
development, and it was a large, quickly moving target.

In the meantime, the gramps developers have rewritten some core pieces
with the goal of attempting to separate components. I think the right way
to approach the development of a modular system is to work with the gramps
developers. In the end, separating the GUI from the underlying data model
will help make gramps more stable, more flexible, and adaptable.

So, I am saving this code and have joined the main gramps development
team. My goals are the same, but I'm helping them fix their modularity
issues. At some point in the future (maybe within a year or so) I hope
that one can run gramps, and pick the GUI one wishes to use, be it gtk,
tkinter, http, or something else entirely. And I think the gramps
developers are for this too.

If you want to help with this project, I encourage you join the main
gramps development team, if you haven't already. There we can work with
them and not waste resources.

-Doug

> Donald