>> From VM1.NoDak.EDU!LINES-L Fri Oct 23 22:51:22 1992
>> Subject:      Keeping you up to date
 
LifeLines Users,
 
LIFELINES WISH LIST -- 23 OCTOBER 1992
 
LifeLines Known Bugs, Almost Bugs and Coming Changes
 
o  Allow last persons browsed use for menus (Dennett)
o  Add user defined functions to the programming language (Woodbridge)
o  Add a "break" statement to the programming language (Woodbridge)
o  Provide general methods to search GEDCOM node trees (Wetmore)
o  Use environment variable for default database locations
o  Use environment variable for default reports locations
 
LifeLines Enhancement Requests
 
o  One of the date formats leaves a comma in (Romelfanger)
o  Implement database validation (names, dates, links)
o  Add wildcard option to search for all persons with same surname (Manis)
o  Implement more operations for date arithmetic and statistics
o  Enhance number printing (A, B, C; a, b, c; etc) (Wetmore)
o  Allow use of \-characters in the surnames (for TeX users)
o  Allow users to create their own default person and family templates
o  Handle "wild/illegal" pointers a la "print(i)" rather than "print(d(i))"
o  Use environment variables for useful directories (Dennett)
o  Use environment variable for default backup location
o  Don't overwrite existing files without confirmation (Dennett)
o  Provide read-only access to the database so others can browse
o  Have a directory of user defined templates
o  Add better name support for married women (Wetmore)
o  Provide a way to compute relationships between persons (Wetmore)
o  Allow GEDCOM to GEDCOM mapping on import or export (Wetmore)
o  Allow family merging when parents aren't the same (Eggert)
o  Add lower bandwidth interface for people using modems or networks
o  Provide fast database insert to speed up restore operation (Wetmore)
o  Let ~ represent the user's home directory
o  Allow user defined menus to list available report programs (Manis)
o  Modify the restore command to handle illegal GEDCOM names (Wetmore)
o  Support a permanent reference number and show it rather than key
o  Write a register program that follows a single descent line
o  Implement floating-point arithmetic
o  Implement higher precision integers for long ahnentafels (Wetmore)
o  Make more and more and more performance improvements (Wetmore)
o  Make values of all 1 NAME lines searchable
 
Longer Term Enhancements and/or Dreams
 
o  Add EVENT and SOURCE record types
o  Allow user specified record types
o  Allow general linking between, out of and into records
o  Provide facilities for date estimation
o  Provide facilities for suggesting duplicates
o  Provide more automatic facilities for merging
o  Provide better support for family construction
o  Add run time type checking to the report programming language
o  Add another level of indirection in r.p.l. to avoid wild pointers
o  Reimplement LifeLines using a client/server model
o  Add a journaling feature (Dennett)
 
LifeLines Closed Issues
 
o  Provide better merging support (Wetmore)
o  Fix bug in strconcat routine
o  Fix bug in addtoset (Romelfanger, Eggert, Dennett)
o  Fix bug in last few browsed feature after merging (Eggert)
o  Allow MS-DOS GEDCOM files as input (already implemented)
o  Add builtin for string length (Woodbridge)
o  Allow identification of families with no parents (Wetmore)
o  Add builtin to convert an xref to INDI or FAM (Woodbridge)
o  Cleanup the write_node(), new_write_node() debacle (Wetmore)
o  Remove redundant data when creating records to merge (Eggert)
o  Allow persons to be identified by key value (Dennett)
o  Change the word "restore" to something more general (Wetmore)
o  Order children after merging families (Dennett)
o  Change message "enter name" to "enter name or key" (Wetmore)
o  c1783 doesn't show up as a date in menus
o  Add \n, \t, and so on capability to report program strings (Wetmore)
o  Fix bug that dumps core on names with three slashes (Roegel)
o  Don't require leading 'I' when finding persons by key (Wetmore)
o  Make the GEDCOM restore error messages more explicit (Wetmore)