Re: GEDCOM X

[email protected] (Paul Johnson) Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:50:40 +0100
Newsgroups perl.gedcom
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 10:42:25PM +0100, Mikkel Eide Eriksen wrote:
> On 30/12/2012, at 22.19, Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Perfect is the enemy of good, and this has dogged many similar
> > initiatives, but GEDCOMX seems to have swung in the opposite direction
> > entirely.  I would be pleased to see the project make real progress but
> > I'm afraid that I find it unlikely.
> 
> I agree, there are many unsolved issues with GedcomX, and the
> specification is nowhere near mature enough for anyone to have started
> writing actual code -- but I figure it'll be slightly more likely to
> get to that point if I contribute when I can.

I absolutely agree, and I applaud you and everyone else who is doing so
(thanks for opening the data model ticket).  I hope that at some point
the project will get to a point where someone can make an implementation
in Perl.

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