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General Information |
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This is GEDCOMViewer version 1.0 |
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GEDCOM was developed by the Family History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) to provide a flexible, uniform format for exchanging computerized genealogical data. GEDCOM is an acronym for GE nealogical D ata Com munication. Its purpose is to foster the sharing of genealogical information and the development of a wide range of inter-operable software products to assist genealogists, historians, and other researchers. Full information about GEDCOM is available here : http://www.gendex.com/gedcom55/55gctoc.htm |
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GEDCOMViewer is an opensource tool designed to browse through GEDCOM files. |
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GEDCOMViewer provides a GTK interface and is GNOME compliant. |
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Its development is managed within the ghosts project (hosted on savannah) |
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* Development main page : http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/ghosts/ |
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* Homepage : http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/ghosts |
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* Downloads : http://savannah.nongnu.org/files/?group=ghosts |
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* Mailing list : ghosts-users@mail.freesoftware.fsf.org |
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GEDCOMViewer has few dependencies. |
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Detailed dependencies (including required releases) are checked by the configure script. |
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Main dependencies are : |
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* GEDCOMParser library (developed within the ghosts project) : http://savannah.nongnu.org/files/?group=ghosts |
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* gtkmm, gnomemm and bakery : http://www.gtkmm.org/ |
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What get's installed ? |
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* gedcomviewer should go in the $prefix/bin directory. |
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* other needed files should go to appropriate directories conforming to GNU and GNOME general rules (pixmaps, po files...) |
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Installation |
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You should install GEDCOMViewer as any Gnu Autoconf package. |
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For more information, see the file 'INSTALL'. |
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How to report bugs |
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Bug tracker system is available within the ghosts project : http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=ghosts |
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Patches |
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Patches can be submitter within the ghosts project : http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?group=ghosts |