More on genealogy anywhere
In the day or so since writing Genealogy Anywhere, my vision has expanded. “Genealogy anywhere” has really caught hold of me, and I’ve realized that what we need is a Firefox of genealogy, so to speak. Universality has become the new north star of the project. And so there will be Windows and Linux versions, and whatever else people use. But don’t worry, Mac users, the Mac will always be my top priority. (And I’m not going to be writing the Windows/Linux versions — others can do that.) And of course we’ll get it translated into as many languages as possible. (I have connections. :))
I’m glad I’ve come to this before I really started coding, because this will require a strict separation layer so that ports to other OSes will be possible (and not exasperating). Time to look seriously at the Firefox model and see how they do things…
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You should consider getting in touch with Dan Olsen, CS professor at BYU, who is currently building an open-source cross-platform genealogy client in Java. It’s supposed to have plug-in points to allow people to sync with on-line repositories.
Excellent — thanks for the tip. (Though his choice of Java is somewhat unfortunate… :) Ruby on Rails is the way to go.)