Re: gedcom diff

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:12:46 +0100, Paul Johnson wrote:

Hi Paul

> No, of course I didn't finish it, but at least there is something
> to build on if anyone wants to take a look at things while I am
> waiting for my somewhat overdue shipment of appropriately shaped
> tuits.

Sigh. Isn't that the way of things. Actually, I happen to have quite a few tuits
available.

But I won't volunteer (certainly not right now) because I've recently
volunteered to add some Oracle support to Rose, a fancy family of modules which
wraps DBI.

> From just looking at it right now, two obvious improvements that
> are required are to compare actual dates rather than their textual
> representations, and to match other textual records in a somewhat
> finer graduation than 0% or 100%.

I take it you mean, e.g., by instantiating some form of Date::* or DateTime::*
type of object, thus delegating the comparison work to pre-existing code? That's
what I'd do.

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