GeneWeb 4.05

Here have been the changes since the previous version:

GeneWeb server or CGI (gwd)

• [26 Feb 02] Added the ability to set the variable "motd" in the database configuration file which is displayed in the welcome page.
• [26 Feb 02] Fixed bug: when updating a person whose death date was indicated as a "text", the death menu displayed "alive".
• [24 Feb 02] Fixed problem of wizard and friend connections under CGI mode which sometimes did not work. Technical features: it was due to the fact that in kind of internet connections, the origin internet address can change for the same user, resulting on no more wizard or friend connection. Now the origin internet address is no more checked, only the given token is.
• [24 Feb 02] Fixed the problem of "disconnection" when (typically) inserting children in a family. Seemed to happen more and more often with recent versions of Windows Web navigators (symptoms: doing "update", "modify family", clicking in an "insert child" button, and doing "ok": then the browser says that the server has disconnected the connection).
• [14 Feb 02] Now the header and trailer files (base.hed and base.trl) can be in only one examplary for all languages in the directory lang (of databases directory) with the ability of inline translation like in start.txt. Still searches first in subdirectories of the language identifier, for backward compatibility.
• [02 Feb 02] Fixed bug: when merging two persons, in case of fast merge applied, some fields of the second person were lost (notes, baptism).
• [02 Feb 02] Added an indication "wizard" or "friend" in upper right corner of the welcome page.
• [31 Jan 02] Added a system to restrict access more strict than the "hide_private_names" system. It can be set by setting the variable "use_restrict" to "yes" in the configuration file. In this context, the hidden persons are not clickable and the relationship computing cannot go through them. (Implemented by Ludovic Ledieu.)
• [30 Jan 02] Fixed (hope so!) displaying of relationship by shortest path in case of half siblings: sometimes intermediate parents were missing, introducing confusion.
• [21 Jan 02] Added a link to the "gwsetup" service in bottom of pages. (The command "gwd" has a new option "-setup_link" to add that).
• [11 Jan 02] Fixed bug: the macros in places were not expanded in the places/surnames pages, in descendants and in ancestors pages.

Setup program (gwsetup)

• [30 Jan 02] Fixed bug: if the access path to the commands (conversions from and to gedcoms or source files, initialisation of consanguinity) contained spaces, these commands failed.
• [21 Jan 02] In "parameters of the data base", added the ability to configurate other useful variables: history, images_path, hide_advanced_request, and so on.
• [14 Jan 02] Big cleanup in this program: now all templates files are grouped together for all languages, which saves 250 files in the distribution! This has other advantages: 1/ easier to maintain 2/ easier to add new languages 3/ easier to extend 4/ exactly same look for all languages 5/ easier to see which sentences are missing in a language .
• [13 Jan 02] Proposes now both addresses localhost and 127.0.0.1. (sometimes just one of them work and not the other).

Gedcom to GeneWeb (ged2gwb)

• [16 Feb 02] Added code to get all the sources from the gedcom to the person's notes (code written by Ludovic Ledieu).
• [23 Jan 02] Accept now some forms of incorrect dates which do not respect the gedcom standard (e.g. @#DJULIAN@ BEF 1580, which should be BEF @#DJULIAN@ 1580).
• [22 Jan 02] Added a search for godparents inside the baptism entry: it is not gedcom standard, but some (other) genealogy software exported them that way.

GeneWeb compiler (gwc) and Gedcom to GeneWeb (ged2gwb)

• [15 Jan 02] Can fix now some cases of "sex not coherent with relations", e.g. when godfather and godmother are inverted.
• [13 Jan 02] Fixed bug (ged2gwb): failed under Windows if there was a first name ending with a single quote (or apostrophe) (this is a typical example of the bug, but it can happen in other circumstances: the bug comes from the option -fne). The message displayed indicating this bug is:
  Uncaught exception: Invalid_argument("String.index_from")
• [08 Jan 02] Fixed bug (ged2gwb): the divorce dates were not imported.

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