- 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
- development support:
- m4 macro that can be used in configure.in
+ - 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: a Gedcom_val, which contains in the case of a REC_NOTE the
- complete concatenated string.
+ argument (similar to the end element callback): a Gedcom_val, which
+ contains in the case of a REC_NOTE the complete concatenated string.
- - The return value of gedcom_init() has changed from void to int to be able
- to return a status, but this should not impact any programs.
+ - INTERFACE CHANGE: the return value of gedcom_init() has changed from
+ void to int to be able to return a status.
- Various bugfixes.