Re: Gedcom.pm 1.17 released

Hi

On 02/01/13 02:48, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Yes, I would love to get that and I'm willing to share my code once I
> have time to fix the most critical issues.

I agree this code should be shared. But read on...

> Maybe Paul would like to create a "contrib" directory in the repository
> that could be used to make code like this available. I guess we could

If by repository you mean the Gedcom.pm distro, that would bloat that 
particular distro, which is already 116 KB.

Ideally such code would be made CPAN-ready before release, without - of 
course - forcing the author to make it production-ready.

I can help with that. I've written a tool for my own use which lists 
pre-reqs, so creating Build.PL and Makefile.PL is quite easy, just a bit 
of editing. Still, the code need some sort of docmentation, which is the 
author's job.

As for a namespace, there is a long history in Perl (i.e. on CPAN) to 
add an X to the primary module's name, giving GedcomX::* as the prefix 
for all such modules. There's no doubt in my mind this is the best course.

And since I've recently become one of the admins for CPAN itself, I do 
take module naming very seriously.

Of course this is a bit confusing because we've just been discussing 
GEDCOM X. Sigh.

So - what to do?

Here's what I suggest: Last year I registered the new namespace 
Genealogy::*, so:

1) For modules using, or already based on, Gedcom.pm, I'd call them 
GedcomX::*.

2) For brand new modules, e.g. implementing GEDCOM X, or not using 
Gedcom.pm, e.g. me new parser we discussed on this list last year, I'd 
call them Genealogy::* or (for GEDCOM X) Genealogy::GedcomX::*.

That way, we'd keep separate things separate.

> all make public repos on github if we have code to contribute but I
> think that makes it harder to find it. And/or we could create wiki
> page(s) that describes these contrib items and how to use them.

Definitely. We'll need a road-map to help orient people to these 
modules, along the lines of:

http://savage.net.au/Module-reviews.html

> Anyway, please send your code when you get a chance. It might be a month
> +- before I get to look at it and give it a try.

Glad to hear it.

> Thanks,
> -Steve
>
> On 1/1/2013 10:37 AM, John Washburn wrote:
>> Dear Stephen:
>>
>> I have a perl program that walks the HTML pages of e-FamilyTree.net and
>> pipes it out to a GEDCOM file. It is also interruptible in that you
>> can run
>> the program for a while, stop it and upon restart it will pick up
>> where the
>> search left off.
>>
>> It uses the HTML:Tree builder and the wonderful look-down functionality
>> mentioned by Ron. It also used Date::Manip quite heavily.
>>
>> I would be happy to zip up the code and send the archive to you if you
>> are
>> interested. The code is a bit bloated because the code grew over time
>> and I
>> had to add special cases for some of the errors in the e-familynet HTML
>> structure and to implement the 1-generation look ahead.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ron Savage [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 10:06 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Gedcom.pm 1.17 released
>>
>> Hi Stephen
>>
>> On 30/12/12 11:03, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
>>> On 12/29/2012 5:26 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> What I noticed was that the data way nicely tag in the HTML so I am
>>> writing a parser to read the HTML can generate a Gedcom file. I have
>>> the basics working, but I have to do more work on it to fix bugs and
>>> collect more of the data than I current am. I'm side tracked with work
>>> at the moment so it is on hold. When I'm done it will have generated a
>>> 40K+ person Gedcom file. This should be able able to create a gedcom
>>> from any "Second Site" generated website assuming it is similar to the
>>> link above. Or you can ask the site owner for a copy of the gedcom :),
>>> but this seemed like a worth challenge at the time.
>>
>> Are you using HTML::TreeBuilder and the v-e-r-y nice look_down() method?
>>
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