Gedcom.pm history

Release 1.00 - Initial release - 8th March 1999

Release 1.01 - 27th April 1999
 - Add some documentation.
 - Add Individual.pm and Family.pm.
 - Remove get_records() - use get_children() instead.
 - Change get_children() and children() to return a list, rather than a
   reference to one.
 - Add resolve_xref() and resolve().
 - Change the profile of collect_xrefs(), resolve_xrefs() and validate().
 - Add get_individual().
 - Remove redundant Gedcom::Item::renumber().
 - Rename child() to child_value() and children() to child_values().
 - Improve testsuite.
 - Make Date::Manip.pm optional.

Release 1.02 - 5th May 1999
 - Add RIN numbers to royal.ged.
 - Move test.pl to t/basic.t.
 - Make basic.t "use Test".
 - Add many tests to basic.t.
 - Add pre-parsed grammar files.
 - Add grammar target to Makefile.PL.
 - Add functions to Family.pm and change Individual.pm to use them.
 - Improve error messages reading top level children.
 - Change the profile of renumber().
 - Internally, remove leading and trailing @ in xrefs.
 - Change order of renumber() to match documentation.
 - Get renumber() to call collect_xrefs().
 - Add resolve_xref() to Gedcom.pm.
 - Add next_xref() to Gedcom.pm.
 - Add unresolve_xrefs() to compliment resolve_xrefs().

Release 1.03 - 13th May 1999
 - Add Grammar::child() and Grammar::structure().
 - Make valid_children more efficient and include min and max information.
 - Add validate_syntax() to Gedcom::Record.pm.
 - Rename Record::validate() to Record::validate_semantics().
 - Add min(), max() and children() to Gedcom::Grammar.pm.
 - Add GEDC and SUBM to royal.ged to accomodate validate_syntax().
 - Fix bug which prevented writing of @s around xref values.

Release 1.04 - 29th May 1999
 - Improve default sort subroutine.
 - Include mailing list information.
 - Add lines2perl.
 - Improve Makefile.PL environment tests.
 - Work around IO::Handle::input_line_number bug.

Release 1.05 - 20th July 1999
 - Add LifeLines.pm.
 - Add Event.pm.
 - Add functions to:
     Gedcom.pm:
       soundex()
     Item.pm:
       level()
       xref()
       tag()
       value()
       min()
       max()
       gedcom()
       file()
       line()
     Individual.pm:
       name()
       cased_name()
       surname()
       given_names()
       soundex()
       sex()
       older_siblings()
       younger_siblings()
     Family.pm:
       parents()
       number_of_children()
 - Change most functions in Individual and Family to check wantarray.
 - Have get_individual check xrefs and soundex.
 - Fix renumber error - xrefs are now calculated and then changed.
 - Change basic.t to reflect renumber fix.
 - Move normalise_dates from Item.pm to Record.pm.
 - Add AUTOLOAD function to Record.pm to provide access based on tag
   name or description.
 - Change lines2perl to use references to arrays and hashes.
 - Other major changes to lines2perl to increase functionality.
 - Change require 5.004 to require 5.005.
 - Add check for Text/Soundex.pm to Makefile.PL.

Release 1.06 - 13th February 2000
 - Add functions to:
     Item.pm:
       get_item()
     Record.pm:
       record()
       get_record()
       get_value()
       tag_record()
       tag_value()
       delete_record()
 - Deprecate use of Item::get_child()      - use Item::get_item()    instead.
 - Deprecate use of Item::get_children()   - use Item::get_item()    instead.
 - Deprecate use of Record::child_value()  - use Record::tag_value() instead.
 - Deprecate use of Record::child_values() - use Record::tag_value() instead.
 - Complete Lifelines::roman() using Roman.pm.
 - Add check for Roman.pm to Makefile.PL.
 - Add read_only option for lazy parsing.
 - Rename ged.vim to gedcom.vim and package it up for inclusion with Vim.
 - Restructure and abstract away some of the basic tests.
 - Add tests:
     t/Engine.pm
     t/Basic.pm
     t/read_only.t
     t/resolve.t
     t/resolve_read_only.t
     t/birthdates.t
     t/Lines.pm
     t/lines.t
     t/lines/lines.ll
     t/bias.t
     t/lines/bias.ll
 - Use "item" instaed of "child" to represent Gedcom hierarchies.
 - Raname Gedcom::Item::add_children()      to Gedcom::Item::add_items()
          Gedcom::Item::skip_children()        Gedcom::Item::skip_items()
          Gedcom::Item::delete_child()         Gedcom::Item::delete_item()
          Gedcom::Item::delete_children()      Gedcom::Item::delete_items()
          Gedcom::Item::next_record()          Gedcom::Item::next_item()
          Gedcom::Grammar::child()             Gedcom::Grammar::item()
          Gedcom::Grammar::children()          Gedcom::Grammar::items()
          Gedcom::Grammar::valid_children()    Gedcom::Grammar::valid_items()
 - Allow accessor functions in Gedcom::Item to set data too.
 - Bless appropriate objects into Gedcom::Event.
 - Add an experimental write_xml().
 - Add tutorial section to documentation.

Release 1.07 - 14th March 2000
 - Add functions to:
     Item.pm:
       item()
       full_value()
 - Get parse_grammar working again.
 - Add a test for parse_grammar.

Release 1.08 - 8th May 2000
 - Allow xrefs to match .+ instead of \w+\d+
 - Make XML output valid.
 - Allow extra sub-items of a grammar structure.

Release 1.09 - 12th February 2001
 - Improved XML output especially with respect to notes.
 - Quietened some spurious warnings.
 - Fixed some bugs reported by users that I don't recall at the moment.
 - Add index file to speed up read_only option.
 - Read files with binmode - keeps Windows happy.
 - Correct line numbers of errors.
 - Use File::Spec so tests pass under Windows.
 - Allow for creation of ppms.
 - Added Gedcom::CGI and cgi-bin/gedcom.cgi.