NOTE: NO BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY IS GUARANTEED FOR 0.x RELEASES !!
-release 0.18 (NOT RELEASED YET):
+release 0.21.0 (NOT RELEASED YET):
+
+ - New features (see documentation):
+ - C object model interface:
+ - functions to add and remove records
+ - functions to update timestamps in records
+ - programs:
+ - gedcom-check (checks standards compliancy of GEDCOM files)
+
+ - Some compatibility with PAF (Personal Ancestral File) is added (thanks
+ Hans Fugal).
+
+release 0.20.0 (30 December 2002):
+
+ - The release numbering scheme is changed to a three-part version number.
+ Patches will just update the last digit.
- The library should now be portable, i.e it should work on any POSIX system.
On systems lacking glibc, libiconv is needed (see README).
- - New features (see documentation):
+ - A lot of new features (see documentation):
- callback interface:
- functions to manipulate cross-references (add, delete, link and
unlink)
+ - functions to manipulate dates (strings to numbers and vice versa,
+ conversion between calendars, ...)
- support for writing Gedcom files
- complete concatenated text (e.g. for notes) is now passed in the
end callback
- support for writing Gedcom files
- development support:
- m4 macro that can be used in configure.in
+ - gedcom-config script for linking and compilation flags
+
+ - The library now comes with an extra shared library (libutf8tools),
+ which needs to be linked in in any programs that use the gedcom parser
+ library (you can use the script 'gedcom-config' to generate link and
+ include flags). You can use utf8tools in totally unrelated programs too.
- INTERFACE CHANGE: the end record callback function now takes an extra
argument (similar to the end element callback): a Gedcom_val, which