GeneWeb version 2.05
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* General
- [Aug 4, 99] In the distribution main directory, files README.txt (English)
and LISEZMOI.txt (French), added a few lines of explanations for starting
with GeneWeb.
- [Jul 15, 99] Changed internal representation of strings in data bases.
Should not make any differences while browsing. However, as it is a major
internal change in the program, problems may appear (mainly in displaying
or in access by name, first name, surname, title...): please report if any
problem.
* Setup program
- [Jul 18, 99] Added in the menu "data base parameters" the ability to
display the characters in the pages 1/ in bold, 2/ in italic, 3/ in
smaller or bigger size (using the new key 'enclosing_tag': see below
section "base configuration files"). Bold is useful, for example, if
a background image is used, to make the text more readable. [Spanish
version not yet translated]
- [Jul 15, 99] Changed GEDCOM export menu to reflect new option "-charset"
of "gwb2ged" (see below in section "GeneWeb to Gedcom").
- [Jul 2, 99] Fixed bug: importing GeneWeb base from old version passing
by a GEDCOM file did not work if the current directory held spaces.
- [Jul 2, 99] Changed names of html files to hold 8 characters maximum
and 3 characters for the extension, to be unzippable by "pkunzip".
* GeneWeb Daemon/CGI (gwd)
- [Aug 6, 99] Changed order of menu in "update page": separated "delete"
from "modify".
- [Aug 6, 99] Restored the system of robot exclusion (had been deleted
in version 1.10) with some improvements. Option "-robot_xcl".
- [Aug 5, 99] Added descendants displaying by tree (doesn't work with Lynx).
- [Aug 3, 99] Added ancestors displaying (and navigating) by tree.
- [Aug 3, 99] In relationship by branches, found a solution to
display the vertical bars correctly aligned relative to the
horizontal bars (works at least with Netscape, IE, Kfm).
- [Aug 2, 99] In relationship displaying, can make the difference in
the lexicon between father's and mother's side (used in Swedish, where
there are different words for "uncle", "aunt", "great-uncle" and
"great-aunt" depending on they are on father's or mother's side).
- [Aug 1, 99] Added relationships computing by marriage.
- [Jul 28, 99] In "cousins" pages, added link to uncles and aunts, nephews
and nieces.
- [Jul 26..28, 99] Added other relations: godparents, adoptive parents,
recognizing parents, candidate parents.
- [Jul 22, 99] In relationship branches displaying, when the spouses are
displayed, display also the marriage date.
- [Jul 20, 99] In the titles displaying, sort preferably the persons by
the nth rank (e.g. "nth duke of ...") when existing.
- [Jul 19, 99] Fixed bug in descendants by list: displaying was incorrect
when several marriages and one of them with an unknown ("? ?") person.
- [Jul 18, 99] When updating families, the "sources" field is propagated
into the created persons.
- [Jul 18, 99] Fixed small bug for the access by subparts of surnames
(it sometimes accepted too small subparts: then the "search" could
give weird results).
- [Jul 17, 99] In welcome page, now search by surname when search by
full name fails (no need to select "surname"). Idem in relationship
computing.
- [Jul 17, 99] Fixed bug: could not access person after having changed his
name, in some circumstances, e.g. changing the surname "L'epine" (in
two words) into "Lepine" (one word).
- [Jul 16, 99] Added a "back" button in case of update error (useful
for browsers which loose the contents of the forms when navigating).
- [Jul 15..29, 99] In relationship computing, added a long display,
the ability to see the spouses in branches displaying, and the ability
to cancel GeneWeb links.
- [Jul 15, 99] Added system of grammar declinations (required by German,
Esperanto, Czech). Changed the lexicon to use this new system.
- [Jul 9, 99] Added link (upper arrow) to welcome page in displayings by
first names and surnames.
- [Jul 9, 99] Fixed date check for possible father when interval (i.e. was
telling "incorrect" when father died between 1250 and 1260 and son born
in 1255).
- [Jul 3, 99] Added "af" as possible surnames particles (this is Danish)
possibly ignored in "search".
* Gedcom to GeneWeb (ged2gwb)
- [Jul 5, 99] Fixed bug sometimes stopping the program (exception
"Invalid_argument") after the detection of an error of a family whose
parents are of bad sex (female father and male mother).
- [Jul 2, 99] Recognizes the dates of the form "FROM..TO..".
* GeneWeb to Gedcom (gwb2ged)
- [Jul 15, 99] Added option "-charset" whose values can be "ANSEL" or
"ASCII": "ASCII" is the default. Deleted option "-ascii" now unuseful.
- [Jul 2, 99] Generate now dates of the form "FROM..TO.." for titles.
* Base configuration files (base.gwf)
- [Jul 18, 99] Added the key 'enclosing_tag' to enclose whole displayed
text with one or several HTML tags. E.g. by setting it to 'strong', all
text is displayed bold. Added comment about that in the template file
"a.gwf".
* Lexicon (lang/lexicon.txt) and Welcome pages (lang/*/start.txt)
- [Aug 5, 99] Updated Portuguese phrases (Yves Guignard)
- [Aug 5..6, 99] Updated Norwegian phrases (Brynjulf Langballe)
- [Aug 3, 99] Updated Danish phrases (Hans Albeck)
- [Aug 3..6, 99] Updated Dutch phrases (Joris Esch)
- [Aug 3, 99] Updated German phrases (Markus Mottl)
- [Aug 2, 99] Updated Italian phrases (Daniel Hirschkoff)
- [Jul 23, 99] Updated Swedish phrases (Lars Gustavsson)
- [Jul 23, 99] Added Czech (Hanus Adler).
- [Jul 17, 99] In welcome pages, simplified the text "it is a first
name and surname or public name blah blah blah...".
- [Jul 17, 99] Changed French term for "surname" ("nom" changed into
"patronyme" more common among French genealogists).
- [Jul 8, 99] Updated Swedish phrases (Stig Petersson)
- [Jul 3, 99] Updated Danish phrases (Hans Albeck)
* Documentation
- [Jul 27, 99] Updated Swedish documentation (Lars Gustavsson).
- [Jul 23, 99] Added documentation about the languages with declinations:
"How to make modifications in the database", section 8.
GeneWeb version 2.04
--------------------
* Setup program
- [Jun 28, 99] Fixed bug: did not work for directories holding spaces.
- [Jun 19, 99] Changed GEDCOM import menu to reflect new option "-charset"
of "ged2gwb" (see below in section "Gedcom to GeneWeb").
- [Jun 18, 99] Added a color combination in the provided palette
whiteyellow, black, bluegreen and brown (thanks to Hans Albeck)
* GeneWeb Daemon/CGI (gwd)
- [Jun 30, 99] Added the ability to enter a Sosa number in the welcome page
when navigating with someone as Sosa reference number (still available from
its "ancestors" page).
- [Jun 30, 99] In relationship links, display common ancestors in a more
canonical order.
- [Jun 28, 99] Due to optimization in consanguinity computing (see below),
the answer time of relationship computing for persons without relationship
links is generally faster (it answers: "no relationship links" faster).
- [Jun 26, 99] Added the ability to access persons having composed surnames
by subparts of their surname: e.g. "Josephine Tascher de La Pagerie" can
now be found by typing just "Josephine Tascher" or "Josephine de La
Pagerie".
- [Jun 25, 99] Added short (horizontal) display for surnames by
alphabetic order + ability to cancel GeneWeb links (for creation of
static HTML pages).
- [Jun 22, 99] Fixed bug: send image in CGI mode did not work.
- [Jun 19..28, 99] Added in ancestors long display the ability to select
and unselect the displaying of siblings and the displaying of notes.
- [Jun 19, 99] Changed presentation of ancestors displaying main menu.
* Gedcom to GeneWeb (ged2gwb)
- [Jun 21, 99] Fixed bug: couples could sometimes be recorded as divorced,
even if not (when there was a "1 DIV" field without DATE and PLAC in the
gedcom file).
- [Jun 19, 99] Can now read MSDOS accentuated characters encoding. Added
option "-charset" which can be followed by "ANSEL", "ASCII" or "MSDOS".
Removed options "-ansel" and "-no_ansel".
Warning: in GEDCOM files, the charset "IBMPC" (which is not standard
GEDCOM 5.5) is by default interpreted as "ASCII", *not* "MSDOS"; to
override this default, the option "-charset MSDOS" will have to be used.
* Consanguinity computing (consang)
- [Jun 28, 99] Optimized code: it is twice faster (on average) now.
* Lexicon (lang/lexicon.txt)
- [Jun 30, 99] Translations added in Italian (Daniel Hirshkoff).
- [Jun 18..Jul 1, 99] Translations improvements in Danish (Hans Albeck).
* Documentation
- [Jun 30, 99] Updated Dutch documentation (Joris Esch).
GeneWeb version 2.03
--------------------
* Setup program
- [Jun 7, 99] Added a Spanish version (Luis Castro Guzman).
- [Jun 1, 99] The location to open is now always "http://localhost:2316/",
independant from the selected language (no more need to end the location
with "fr" or "en"): the page is displayed in the selected language.
- [May 15, 99] Added deletion of ".gwo" file after then "gwc" operation.
- [May 9, 99] Added predefined palette combination in "data base parameters";
changed presentation of all page.
- [May 9, 99] Added system to forbid non local accesses.
- [May 7, 99] Fixed bug: recovering data base from old version of GeneWeb
did not work when the old directory held spaces.
- [May 7, 99] Fixed bad behavior under Windows: "GWU.EXE" (in uppercase)
was not regognized when searching for old GeneWeb versions.
- [May 7, 99] Fixed bug: "cleanup" under Windows did not work.
* GeneWeb Daemon/CGI (gwd)
- [Jun 7, 99] No more (stupid) abbreviation for "Number" in update forms:
Did not work for many languages.
- [Jun 3, 99] Added ability to use a new predefined term "+before" in the
lexicon to specify the complement is before a verb (e.g. in German:
"send" "image" is translated into "senden +before" "Bild", which gives
at end: "Bild senden"; same solution for Dutch).
- [May 31, 99] In ancestors only selected generation, added displaying
of Sosa intervals (and "..." is displayed for non-contiguous intervals).
- [May 18, 99] Added, in ancestors and descendants displaying, the ability
to cancel GeneWeb links. Useful to extract a Web page for a site without
GeneWeb server.
- [May 16, 99] Fixed bug: in ascendants long displaying, did not display
the last possible generation.
- [May 15, 99] Added a "?" at end of empty requests (with just the data base
name) because of too smart browsers which automatically add a "/" at end
of the address in this case (transforming e.g. "http://host/base" into
"http://host/base/"), what makes the request not working.
- [May 14, 99] Fixed bug: in personal pages, the term "died" was sometimes
missing when there was only a death place but no death date. Happened
for persons born more than 120 years ago.
- [May 12, 99] Fixed problem in CGI mode under Windows: sometimes displayed
warning texts on the page.
- [May 11, 99] Fixed bug: advanced search worked bad when neither "wizard"
nor "friend": did not work when only specifying e.g. a first name
or a surname of an existing (non "public") person.
- [May 11, 99] Fixed bug: when adding ";opt=no_index" in URLs like explained
in the doc ("How to put links to your base"), the used language was
missing in the new URL.
- [May 10, 99] Added ability to put relationship date for non married
persons.
- [May 7, 99] Fixed bug visible in Danish: the AE ligature ("æ")
was incorrectly capitalized.
* Lexicon (lang/lexicon.txt) and welcome pages (*/start.txt)
- [Jun 7, 99] Changed terms in Dutch for sentences with verb at end.
- [Jun 7, 99] Added missing terms in Portuguese (Yves Guignard).
- [Jun 3, 99] Added missing terms in German (Markus Mottl).
- [Jun 3, 99] Added some missing terms in Italian (Daniel Hirschkoff).
- [Jun 2, 99] Fixed and completed translations in Swedish (Lars Gustavsson;
some help also from Stig Petersson).
- [May 31, 99] Corrected and completed Spanish sentences in lexicon
and Spanish welcome page (Luis Castro Guzman).
* Gedcom to GeneWeb (ged2gwb)
- [May 19, 99] Better catenation of continuation (CONC) notes. In particular
fixes the bug which sometimes added spaces inside words.
* GeneWeb to Gedcom (gwb2ged)
- [May 19, 99] Fold notes lines at 255 characters (required by GEDCOM
standard) adding CONC.
* Consanguinity computing (consang)
- [May 23, 99] Does not restart from scratch when changes: compute
only what's necessary.
* Documentation
- [May 13..31, 99] Updated Swedish documentation (Lars Gustavsson).
GeneWeb Version 2.02
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* New feature
- [May 4, 99] Added a new program "setup" which will allow to
use a lot of commands without having to type magic incantations in a
MSdos (Windows) or Xterm (Unix) window. Everything is done in the Web
navigator: creation of a database, extraction of a GEDCOM file, cleanup,
etc etc.
Should be convenient for non computer scientists beginners (and even for
old timers computer scientists who already know GeneWeb).
* General
- [Apr 22, 99] Added Danish language (by Hans Albeck).
* GeneWeb Daemon/CGI (gwd)
- [May 6, 99] Fixed bad behavior: in "modify person" form, a person was
not considered as "buried", if the only area filled was "burial place".
- [May 4, 99] Added button "include missing spouses" for missing ancestors.
- [May 4, 99] Suppressed trace log count in CGI mode in not redirected
in a file (option "-log"). Seemed to be incorrectly displayed in the
HTML page in Windows.
- [Apr 30, 99] Fixed another accent problem in displaying in clicking
a first name for corresponding surnames starting with an accentuated
letter.
- [Apr 29, 99] Accept now files in image field ending with ".jpeg" and
".JPEG" (accepted before only with ".jpg" and ".JPG").
- [Apr 29, 99] Fixed bug: when a persons first name, last name and number
is the same as another person, GeneWeb shows a warning and suggests a new
number. If the new number is selected, all special signs were
transformed into codes.
- [Apr 29, 99] Fixed small uncomfortable feature: when trying to save an
image from a GeneWeb page, the browsers did not propose a correct file
name to save this image (due to request syntax).
- [Apr 29, 99] Added ability to change the first name and the surname
of all children of a person in one only form. See new doc.
- [Apr 26, 99] Fixed upload of "jpeg" files which sometimes did not work
with Windows (message: "incorrect request")
- [Apr 25, 99] Added space before "+" in short dates.
* Lexicon (lexicon.txt)
- [Apr 23, 99] Some changes in Hebrew version (by Jonathan Marder).
* GeneWeb compiler (gwc)
- [Apr 22, 99] Do not consider the message "notes before definition"
any more as a fatal error.
* GeneWeb uncompiler (gwu)
- [May 3, 99] Added option "-o" for consistency with other commands.
- [Apr 22, 99] Do not save notes any more for persons having "?" as
first name or surname.
* Documentation
- [Apr 29, 99] Added doc for the new feature "change children's names":
in "update.htm", modified section 3, added a point 5 (shifting the
point "add parents" to number 6), added section 5.8 for explanations.
GeneWeb Version 2.01
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* General
- [Apr 2, 99] Added Norwegian language (Brynjulf Langballe).
- [Mar 30, 99] Changed term "photo" into "image".
* GeneWeb Daemon/CGI (gwd)
- [Apr 20, 99] Changed suffix ".cnf" into ".gwf" for configuration files
(because of confusion with that predefined suffix in Windows).
- [Apr 20, 99] In short dates (just year), if no birth date, baptism date
is displayed.
- [Apr 19, 99] In latest births and latest deaths displaying, the
dates with just the year or just the month and the year are also taken
into account.
- [Apr 17, 99] Improved relationship branches displaying to be readable
with Lynx (terminal browser without tables).
- [Apr 16, 99] When merging persons, the lowest number is proposed by
default.
- [Apr 16, 99] Added long display for ancestors.
- [Apr 13, 99] Fixed bug in personal pages: for people having a public
name, the (small) links to the first name and surname could work
bad in case of accents. Fixed other bug same kind: in advanced
request, research did not work if accents were used...
- [Apr 6, 99] Fixed bug in personal pages, titles dates were sometimes
displayed just as "...".
- [Apr 2, 99] Fixed bug: in missing ancestors in alphabetic order, the
accents in surnames were incorrectly displayed.
- [Mar 30, 99] Added the spouses when displaying relationship links with
cousins (from the "cousin" link in personal pages).
- [Mar 25, 99] Added the "unmarried" case for couples.
- [Mar 23, 99] Added display of number of accesses in traces.
- [Mar 17, 99] In person modification form, determines whether a person
is died or not (if not specified), according to his age.
- [Mar 16-19, 99] The presence of images in pages does not block any
more the display of the text. For example, in welcome pages, the text
does not wait for the displaying of the flags to be displayed, which
is much more comfortable. (This applies only for local images).
- [Mar 14, 99] In anniversaries, in the list of months, the selected
month is now the current month, not always January.
* Gedcom to GeneWeb (ged2gwb)
- [Apr 2, 99] Added the automatic computation that a person is died or
not (if not indicated in the gedcom), according to the person's age,
and deleted the option "-nd".
- [Mar 31, 99] Added option "-log" to redirect output.
- [Mar 20, 99] Added options for dates where months are represented by
numbers: -dates_dm when day before month and -dates_md when month
before day.
- [Mar 16, 99] Did not work for gedcom files with white spaces in the
beginning of the lines. Fixed.
- [Mar 11, 99] Fixed horrible bug: treatment of accents worked bad for
gedcom files with ascii charset (resulting problems in "a" umlaut, for
example).
* Consanguinity computing (consang)
- [Mar 26, 99] Added option -q for quiet mode, just displaying a progress
bar.
* Lexicon (lexicon.txt) and Welcome files (xx/start.txt)
- [Mar 10, 99] Some changes in Italian version (by Raffaele Sena).
* Documentation
- [Mar 24, 99] Deleted all background colors.
- [Mar 18..Apr 13, 99] Swedish version updated (Lars Gustavsson).
- [Mar 17, 99] Changed documentation for the new feature "automatic choice"
for the "death state" (see above), file "update.htm", section 5.4 "modify
a person", paragraph "Death".
* Internal
- [Mar 24, 99] (working Unix only) Added options "-setuid" and "-setgid"
to "gwd" to change the user or group id after socket bind. This allows
for example to use the port 80 (root needed) but accessing data as
normal user.
GeneWeb Version 2.00
--------------------
From the version 2.00, the license is GPL (GNU General Public
License). The previous license still applies up to the version 1.11
included.
* GeneWeb daemon/CGI (gwd)
- [Mar 7, 99] Added ability to enter directly birth dates for children
in families forms.
- [Feb 27, 99] Added case "half-siblings" in relationship links.
- [Feb 27, 99] In personal pages, titles dates when complete are
displayed completely (not just year).
- [Feb 26, 99] For a birth the present day, does not display "happy
birthday" any more! And displayed age is "birth" and not "less than
one year".
- [Feb 26, 99] Displaying of first name alias in personal pages does
not include the surname any more.
- [Feb 23, 99] In non leap years, birthday anniversaries of February 29
are counted and celebrated March 1.
- [Feb 19, 99] Replacement of "%s" by the name of the base with context,
also in family comment.
- [Feb 18, 99] Added deletion of photos.
- [Feb 13, 99; Feb 20, 99] Added ability to send photos.
- [Feb 12, 99] Improved displaying in Hebrew language.
- [Feb 8, 99] Fixed bug in CGI mode under Windows: images (flags e.g.)
were often truncated.
* Gedcom to GeneWeb (ged2gwb)
- [Feb 14, 99] Assumed wrongly that all families were defined after
individuals, because it is often the case in Gedcom files. But this is
not mandatory in definition Gedcom 5.5. Fixed.
- [Feb 6, 99] Accept dates with "/" (20/11/1993) although it is not
standard Gedcom 5.5. Interpreted as day/month/year.
* GeneWeb to Gedcom (gwb2ged)
- [Feb 26, 99] Fixed error: the first name alias if any was always saved
in the gedcom as first name. Now saved only as first name if it starts
with the first name (e.g. if first name = "John" and first name alias =
"John Philip Robert").
* GeneWeb compiler (gwc)
- [Feb 19, 99] The option "-cg" did not work. Fixed.
* GeneWeb uncompiler (gwu)
- [Feb 16, 99] Fixed bug: names holding "?" were sometimes not saved
correctly, so that gwc did not work afterwards.
* Lexicon
- [Feb 26, 99] Small change in French translation.
- [Feb 11, 99..Feb 24, 99] Some changes in Swedish version and fixed some
errors in English version (Lars Gustavsson).
* Documentation
- [Mar 8, 99] Added a short paragraph in update.htm, section 5.2,
paragraph "Filling", alinea "Create" about the fact that one can add his
birth date.
- [Feb 26, 99] Small change in French version (translation of "first
name alias") in file update.htm, section 5.4.
- [Feb 18, 99] Explained how to delete photos (new feature) in file
"update.htm", (new) section 5.7. Some more changes in "start.htm",
section "File a.cnf" and "update.htm" section 3 and 5.6.
- [Feb 15, 99] Completed info for configuration files in file "start.htm",
section "File a.cnf". Explained how to send photo (new feature) in file
"update.htm": added section 5.6, completed section 3.
- [Feb 11, 99..Feb 24, 99] Updated Swedish version and fixed some errors
in English version (Lars Gustavsson).
- [Feb 10, 99] Updated Dutch version (Joris Esch).
GeneWeb Version 1.11
--------------------
* General
- [Jan 27, 99] Added Hebrew (Jonathan Marder, Ruth Marder)
* GeneWeb daemon/CGI (gwd)
- [Jan 30, 99] Added link to welcome page after updates.
- [Jan 24, 99] Added default photo names: not necessary to specify a
photo for someone, a default name is searched.
- [Jan 20, 99; Jan 30, 99] Added display of latest deaths.
- [Jan 19, 99] Added direct links to siblings.
- [Jan 18, 99] Family comment now displayed like dates (=> possible
visibility by password restriction).
- [Jan 18, 99] In notes and sources, the string "%s" is replaced by the
name of the base in the same context. For example, in a source field,
if "John Smith" is in the same database, it is possible to record it
as:
John Smith
- [Jan 11, 99] Display declined forms (for some languages). E.g.:
* in German: "x ist ein Sohn von einem Cousin von y"
("einem" instead of the inkorrect "ein").
* in Esperanto: "aldoni personon"
("personon" instead of the incorrect "persono")
* GeneWeb compiler (gwc)
- [Jan 26, 99] Fixed bug: failure when backslashes in source.
- [Jan 18, 99] Fixed two bugs in dates parsing: 1. "x..y" (between x and
y) was interpreted as "x|y" (x or y) 2. did not accept "d/m/y..y".
* Gedcom to GeneWeb (ged2gwb)
- [Feb 3, 99] No more message "Not implemented SUBM".
- [Feb 1, 99] Accept now "BET x AND" as "AFT x" and "BET AND x" as "BEF x".
- [Feb 1, 99] Fixed bug: date intervals did not work (generating "maybe").
* GeneWeb to Gedcom (gwb2ged)
- [Jan 19, 99] Fixed bug: the tag "
" was converted into a new line
only in lowercase form; "
" did not work.
* Gedcom to GeneWeb and GeneWeb to Gedcom (ged2gwb, gwb2ged)
- [Jan 18, 99] When there are several names (several records "1 NAME") for
someone in Gedcom, the other become "aliases" (and vice versa for
gwb2ged).
* GeneWeb uncompiler (gwu)
- [Feb 4, 99] Notes for persons having "?" no more saved (these
persons are supposed to be deadends and this made "gwc" fail).
* Lexicon file (lexicon.txt)
- [Feb 3, 99] Some changes in Swedish translation (Lars Gustavsson).
- [Jan 28, 99] Added section "!dir" for languages written right to left.
- [Jan 28, 99] [minor] Portuguese translation now in pure ascii using
HTML "&" macros instead of accents (no changes in Portuguese displaying)
- [Jan 16, 99] For update forms, changed text "Date" into "Date (d/m/y)"
in english version to be sure there is no ambiguity.
- [Jan 16, 99] Added declined forms.
- [Jan 16, 99] Fixed typos in German version (Markus Mottl).
* Welcome files (xx/start.txt)
- [Jan 30, 99] (en) Some changes in terms used (anniversaries).
* Documentation
- [Feb 3, 99] Added a paragraph (Message "socket failed") in "problems".
- [Feb 1, 99] Updated Dutch version (Joris Esch).
- [Jan 29, 99] Added remark at end of introduction for how to redirect
the command displaying in a file.
- [Jan 26, 99..Feb 3, 99] Fixed many typos in english version (Lars
Gustavsson).
- [Jan 25, 99] Added doc explaining consanguinity: new link in "directions
for use".
- [Jan 24, 99] Added doc for default photo name (new feature) in "directions
for use", page "modifications", section 5.4 ("modify a person"),
paragraph "Photo".
- [Jan 24, 99] Fixed typo; was indicated "image" instead of "images" as
directory name in this paragraph.
- [Jan 22, 99] Added a few lines for "How to merge two families" in the
page "modifications".
- [Jan 20, 99] Added documentation for:
* how to put links to GeneWeb databases.
* how to customize welcome pages.
- [Jan 11, 99] Swedish version (Lars Gustavsson).
GeneWeb Version 1.10
--------------------
* GeneWeb daemon/CGI (gwd)
- [09/01/99] Fixed bug in CGI mode: images in directory "images/base"
were sometimes not found.
- [08/01/99] Changed term "consanguinity" into "relationship" in
relationship computing (because confusion with the usual meaning of
the term "consanguinity").
- [06/01/99] Deleted Unix option "-robot_xcl": worked bad, did not detect
robots, detected robots when there are not, too complicated to fix.
(The normal HTTP robot exclusion remains.)
- [28/12/98] Changed some http requests to hold no accents (should be
continued...)
- [19/12/98] Fixed bug quotes disappearing in field "first name aliases"
in form Update/Person (if the value holds quotes).
- [18/12/98] No more HTML "table" used in relationship links with
one branch (=> more compact display and visible in browsers
without tables, e.g. "lynx").
- [13/12/98] The directory cnt is no more searched in the directory where
the daemon (or the CGI) is launched but in the base directory (option -bd
of gwd; no difference if option -bd not used).
- [13/12/98] In relationship links, display the ancestor couple (if both
are ancestors).
--- [12/12/98..13/12/98] Added displaying of cousins.
- [11/12/98] Fixed more bugs (accents) due to new ANSEL encoding.
* Gedcom to GeneWeb (ged2gwb)
- [14/12/98] Fixed bug in Windows version (displaying "uncaught exception:
Stream.Failure").
* GeneWeb compiler (gwc)
- [02/01/99] Fixed missing accents displaying for undefined persons.
* Lexicon file (lexicon.txt)
- [06/01/99] Fixed and completed German version (thanks to Markus Mottl).
- [15/12/98] Added some missing phrases in some languages (mainly Espagnol,
Italian).
- [11/12/98] Fixed and completed Dutch version (thanks to Joris Esch).
* Welcome files (xx/start.txt)
--- [06/01/99, 08/01/99] Wizard and Friend passwords
are to be provided in a popped window (except in CGI mode).
- [04/01/99, 09/01/99] (de) Fixed some typo (thanks to Markus Mottl).
- [11/12/98, 04/01/99] (nl) Fixed and completed (thanks to Joris Esch).
* GeneWeb uncompiler (gwu)
- [12/12/98] Added option "-mem" to save memory space, but slower.
* Documentation
- [09/01/99] Changed link to "LICENCE" which did not always work.
--- [04/01/99] Added dutch version (thanks to Joris Esch).
GeneWeb Version 1.09
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* Inside databases
--- Precisions of dates now apply not only for years, but for complete
date. E.g. "maybe on september 1815" or "after september 23, 1815".
--- In dates, added case "between": between year and another year.
- Structure of databases have been changed for these two above points.
- Area "comment" in families is now kept even if there are children.
* Gedcom to GeneWeb (ged2gwb)
- Delete of duplicated FAMS which sometimes happen in erroneous Gedcoms.
- Delete families from GEDCOM when parents dont have the good sex.
- Added displaying of line number when syntax errors and unrecognized dates.
- Get sources if defined by pointer (but just the 1st line).
- Added option "-no_nd" (no negative dates), not to interpret years preceded
by a minus sign as negative dates.
* GeneWeb to Gedcom (gwb2ged)
- Added option "-ascii" to output in ASCII encoding instead of ANSEL.
* Gedcom to GeneWeb and GeneWeb to Gedcom (ged2gwb, gwb2ged)
- The GeneWeb fields "public name", "surname alias" and
"photo" are now loaded from and saved to Gedcom resp. as: "2 GIVN",
"2 SURN" and "1 OBJE (newline) 2 FILE".
* GeneWeb daemon/CGI (gwd)
--- Added alibity to specify someone as Sosa reference. Then the Sosa
number is printed in navigation when displaying ancestors. Thanks to
Emmanuelle Visseaux for this idea.
--- Restructuration of displaying of surnames and first names by alphabetic
order and frequency. Fixed bug of bad alphabetic order when first names
and surnames with accents. Access in indexes faster.
- In list by title places, added clickable "The whole list" giving the
list of all persons associated with this place, whatever the title.
- Descendants display limited to 12 generations in all cases (else too much
text or too long to answer).
- Added error message in relationship computing when loop in
database (someone being his/her own ancestor).
- In "search", added ability to write "I" instead of "Ier" (french form).
Ex: "Charles I" or "Charles Ier" are both accepted.
- Added ability to add ";opt=no_index" at end of requests to get an
equivalent link independant from the persons' index number (useful
to put direct links in Web pages).
- Added text "Parents of" in top of pages of missing ancestors.
- Fixed still several bugs (accents) due to new ANSEL encoding.
* Base configuration files (xxx.cnf)
- Added variable "wizard_just_friend" to suspend the powers of
"wizards" (e.g. for maintenance): when set to "yes", they become
simple "friends" (default: "no").
- Variable "renamed" can be used to specify that a database has been
renamed. Generates a page giving the good URL to use.
* GeneWeb compiler and Consanguinity computing (gwc, consang)
- Fixed accents displaying in traces and error messages.
* Welcome pages (start.txt)
- Fixed wrong displaying of number of accesses in spanish (es) and
portuguese (pt) versions.
- Display thousand separators in numbers of accesses.
* Documentation (directory doc)
- Added 2 cases in FAQ.
- Many small changes.
GeneWeb Version 1.08
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* Added portuguese among languages (thanks to Yves Guignard).
* gwd:
- fixed several displaying bugs due to ANSEL
- in forms, when a precision (about, maybe, before, after, or year) is given
for a date, the day and month part are ignored, since its works only for
years (for the moment).
- photos and background in directory "images" can be installed in a
subdirectory having the name of the database; ex: "images/martin" for
the database "martin".
- display "+" for dead people even if not known date
* gwc, gwu:
- added backslash as escape character for underscores
* gwc:
- save much much memory space while running when there are many many notes
* ged2gwb:
- fixed bug displaying "Uncaught exception: Stream.Error("get to eoln")" when
the gedcom file did not end with a newline
* consang:
- more clear message when consang does not work because of loop in database
* doc:
- added doc for merging databases, persons and families.
- added doc for databases maintenance.
- small changes in diruse.htm, server.htm, start.htm
GeneWeb Version 1.07
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* Added some stuff to allow chinese like languages.
* Started chinese translation
* Added source field for birth, baptism, death, burial, marriage.
* gwd:
- fixed bug, missing ancestors were printed in reverse order
- fixed bug, could not find file "start.txt" in -hd directory.
- fixed bug, missing persons when displaying close names
- used flags for languages selection instead of tables
- better displaying of dates for the miscellaneous languages
- display birthdays of persons with death "don't know" (but without age)
* ged2gwb:
- does not stop any more when bad GEDCOM line found => warning and goes on.
- added option -nd setting flag "not dead" instead of "don't know if dead"
for personal records where "DEAT" exists but is empty.
* gwb2ged:
- start now pointers with 1 instead of 0 because some softwares seem not
to accept @I0@ and @F0@.
- generate always ANSEL encoding
* gwu:
- added option -d to select descendants like in gwb2ged
GeneWeb Version 1.06
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* ged2gwb:
- warning, not error now, when a person is undefined
* a.cnf:
- added example of setting background image
GeneWeb Version 1.05
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* gwd:
- added ability to merge persons and families.
- added advanced requests
- added year interval when displaying missing ancestors
- (detail) added dates when displaying descendants indexes.
- (detail) misc terms changing ("add"->"insert"; "nickname"->"qualifier"...)
* gwu:
- added option "-a" to select ancestors like in command "gwb2ged".
* bug fixes:
- Fixed a problem of blocking: the symptom was that, in some
versions of Windows 95, "gwd" started normally, but when opening
the site in the navigator, the site was found but the navigator was
waiting and waiting forever.
- When updating a person, if the "notes" field holds only a newline,
the request is rejected => fixed. Moreover some browsers add this "bad"
newline if the notes fields is empty => fixed.
GeneWeb Version 1.04
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* gwd, ged2gwb, gwb2ged:
- added baptism (separated from birth) and burial/cremation.
- added sources for marriages.
* gwd:
- added "access" info, for infos display when dates < now - 100 years =
* "If Titles" => displayed if the person has titles
* "Public" => always displayed
* "Private" => not displayed
- added link to welcome page in personal record pages.
- added option -auth: authorization file to restrict access (password)
- fixed bug: in cgi mode, access to images did not work.
- in welcome page, date (since ...) is printed in original language.
- birthday months displayed as a menu and at the end instead of beginning
* lexicon.txt:
- some changes in translations
GeneWeb Version 1.03
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* Added swedish version.
* gwd:
- in display by name, display year with precision in marriages
- in missing ancestors by alphabetic order, display spouses too
- in missing ancestors by Soza, shorter display of numbers
- changed syntax of gwd.arg file (for cgi mode) => see doc "server"
- in update person form, display "born" and "died" in neutral when
language can do it (e.g. french "ne(e)", "decede(e)")
- added request m=R;p=..;n=..;p1=..;n1=.. displaying relationship
between two persons by their names
* ged2gwb:
- when converting a date with qualifier, if the date holds day or month,
converts into: "ca Year". Ex: "AFT APR 1218" is read as "ABT 1218".
- fixed bug: date 16/2/1964 gave "year = 16" instead of "year = 1964"
* gwd, a.cnf, lang/lexicon.txt
- deleted principle of "message" (was undocumented, anyway)
* gwd, doc:
- changed terminology "occurrence number" into just "number" (I realized
that "occurrence" is mathematical jargon).
* gwd, lang/*/start.txt:
- displaying of total number of accesses, not only accesses in welcome page
* in all commands:
- options -help display message on standard output instead of standard
error, allowing to use "| more" in Windows 95/NT
GeneWeb Version 1.02
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* doc:
- explain a solution for the problem of connection off line
* ged2gwb:
- ANSEL encoding is automatically detected (1 CHAR ANSEL in GEDCOM).
Suppression option "-tma"; adding "-ansel" and "-no_ansel" to force
or suppress the encoding, overriding the possible setting in GEDCOM.
* gwd:
- fixed bug: error while treating anniversaries of marriage in
databases where families had been deleted:
Uncaught exception: Failure("access persons out of bounds")
GeneWeb Version 1.01
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New:
- Command gwb2ged to export GEDCOM files.
- More doc
Other changes:
* ged2gwb:
- accept BAPM (unspecified baptism) together with CHR (christian baptism)
in individual records
- treat fields TITL (nobility titles) in individual records
- fixed bug: families and children was bad ordered or reordered
- added field SOUR (sources) (if not a pointer) for personal record; was
only selected from BIRT (birth) and DEAT (death)
- options -epn and -efn are now by default: options -no_epn and -no_efn
added to cancel thems.
- applies "-lf" after "-epn"
* gwd:
- changed: when deleting a person, it is now deleted also among the
children of his parents.
- fixed bug: when deleting a person, some fields were not erased.
- added option -lang: default language
- changed: displaying shortcuts when accessing by titles: for example,
if there is only one king in the data base, and it is "king of France",
selecting "king" directy displays "kings of France".
* gwb2gw has been renamed gwu.
GeneWeb Version 1.0
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CGI mode is Ok.
* gwd, ged2gwb, lang/lexicon.txt:
- errors on dates become warnings
GeneWeb Version 1.0-beta.10
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Still intermediate version to perfect "CGI" mode.
* gwd:
- fixed bug: update did not work in cgi mode.
- print person link after "family switch"
- when using "add parents", surname is printed in child area => ability
to change father's.
GeneWeb Version 1.0 beta.9
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Intermediate version to perfect "CGI" mode under Windows NT.
* More documentation
* gwd:
- cgi is detected by the presence of environment variable QUERY_STRING.
It seems that .bat files is not accepted in Web servers in Windows NT,
so one must use "gwd" itself.
- if "gwd" is installed in cgi directory, and is renamed, e.g. "geneweb.exe",
ability to add a file named "geneweb.arg" holding some lines
* the first line if existing holds the name of the directory
where "lang" is installed
* the second line if existing holds the name of the directory
where the databases are installed
* the third line, if existing, may hold the string "cgi" telling
that gwd must run on "cgi" mode, even if QUERY_STRING is
not set
- added option -bd: bases directory
- no error message now if background not found
* Deleted "add/person" in update (gwd) and in welcome pages (lang/*/start.txt)
=> impossibility now to directly create isolated persons. This is because
it often leads to manipulation errors. To add a new baby, use "modify
family" from one of his parents' personal record.
GeneWeb Version 1.0 beta.8
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* Added documentation in HTML: directions for use
* Added LICENCE
* Deleted COMM-en.txt & COMM-fr.txt
* gwd:
- added cgi mode (option -cgi)
- Less general for acces by approximative spelling: ex: first name "agns"
will not yet answer: "Agnes" and "Gunza", but just "Agnes".
- Unix version: time out limited to 120 seconds instead of 60
- Descendants by list limited to 8 instead of 5
- added missing divorce information in descendants by list
- Fixed bug: Ok on "add person" did not work
- Fixed bug: could not cancel a friend or wizard password, by giving an
empty one in the form in starting page
- Fixed bug: shift at end of page for the indexes of descendants.
- Fixed bug: update of family did not work.
* ged2gwb:
- added divorces
- suppressed sources when forward defined (code reorganizing to do).
* lang/lexicon.txt:
- german translation updated
* lang/de/start.txt:
- german translation updated
GeneWeb Version 1.0 beta.7
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* general:
- changed bases representation => memory consummation reduced in gwd and
in consang
- negative years are treated (gwc, gwd, ged2gwb)
* gwd:
- the directory cnt holding counts is searched in the current directory
not in the one given by option "-hd" (no difference if -hd not specified).
- this directory, cnt, is created if no present
- ability to add a file "foo.trl" for the base "foo", in lang directory
and in its subdirectories: the file is inserted at the end of all pages
after the GeneWeb copyright. Note: the files ".txt" in the
subdirectories do not hold yet the final tag "".
- limitation to 5 generations for descendants display in list format
- fixed bug: families could be displayed twice in case of close surnames
- fixed bug: displaying of lexicon worked bad in 1.0-beta.6
* gwb2gw:
- memory consummation significantly reduced
- added option -tnd: infer negative dates when missing minus signs in GEDCOM
- added option -lf: lowercase first names
- add file "command.txt" in base directory to remind the used command and
arguments
- fixed bug: when multiple lines with 1 NOTES, only the first was treated
- fixed bug: names starting with special letters were truncated
- fixed bug: better search for possible years in undecoded dates
GeneWeb Version 1.0 beta.6
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* ged2gwb:
- now only shortcut for options, suppressed long versions, finally
- fixed bug in option "-tma" creating sometimes strings of bad length
- fixed bug sometimes omissions of recording notes
- try to find a year (a number between 32 and 2500) in dates impossible
to decode
* gwd:
- added option "-only" in version Windows 95 too.
- added option "-log" in version Windows 95 to redirect log to a file.
- added display of ascendants up to an ancestor in relationship computing.
- while displaying ascendants, the first generation is now the person
himself (which is displayed with Soza number 1), not his parents
- accept local ".GIF" files as photos (up to now, it was only ".gif", ".jpg"
and ".JPG").
- local photo files are searched in (new) directory "images"
- added copyright (c)
* gwc
- options described in english
- added "unnamed" in statistics (option -stats)
* lang/lexicon.txt:
- some fixes in dutch version
* lang/version:
- added copyright (c)
* lang/*/start.txt:
- added form at end of pages to allow entering password for other entries.
GeneWeb Version 1.0 beta.5
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Main changes
* ged2gwb:
- added option "-translate_msdos_accents"
- added shortcuts for options => -ls -efn -epn -tma
- errors go to standard output instead of standard error
* gwd:
- missing ancestors:
o added alphabetic order
o no more display of spouses
o proposed for all entries (not only for wizard one)
- added "From inet_addr" in traces in Windows NT/95.
- added date of service start in starting files.
- fixed bug: internal error after: relationship computing => selection by
name => alphabetic order
* lang/lexicon.txt
- completed translations in german and spanish
Secondary changes
* gwd:
- added more explicit messages for some system errors.
- changed the text "numbers" into "Soza numbers" in ancestors.
- changed surnames display in alphabetic order (particles after)
- improve messages in relationship links ("click here to see the first
branch")
- signature version of GeneWeb in default starting pages
GeneWeb Version 1.0 beta.4
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* ged2gwb:
- fixed bug: tag DEAT generated "dead" in some wrong cases.
- options "-extract_first_name" and "-extract_public_name" more separated
and working better
* gwd:
- There was another problem of blocking. Fixed (supposed to!).
* a.cnf:
- palette of colors is proposed
GeneWeb Version 1.0 beta.3
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* ged2gwb:
Options
- option "-uncapitalize" is renamed "-lowercase_surnames"
- Added options "-extract_first_names" and "-extract_public_names"
Behaviour:
- Newlines (