Cocoa interface to GEDCOM file

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Cocoa interface to GEDCOM file

The only full-fledged GPL Cocoa editor for GEDCOM 5.5 files (GenerationX) was last released in 2003: http://sourceforge.net/projects/generationx/ It looks unstable under Snow Leopard and would badly need a revamp.

Someone recently posted a proof-of-concept application (unrelated to GenerationX) on Google Code, but it looks like an unmaintained project: http://code.google.com/p/cocoa-gedcom/

Is there any Cocoa developer interested in genealogy and willing to resurrect any of these projects? Or any other projects with a decent release cycle I am not aware of?

The Mac genealogy software market is dominated by pricy and feature-bloated proprietary solutions. A no-nonsense open source GEDCOM-compliant framework for Mac OS would be a blessing.

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There is MacPAF, but I'm not sure what the status of it is.

Jay Askren 2010-08-11 17:52:37

This also hasn't seen activity in over a year

Dave DeLong 2010-08-11 19:11:45

MacPAF hasn't released any files yet, but I have just heard from the author of cocoa-gedcom that the MacPAF maintainer is contacting developers for a possible relaunch of the project. So that sounds like the most promising option at the moment. As a temporary solution, I have found PAW2U, it's not open source but it does the job, until some other product becomes available.http://www.lanopalera.net/Genealogy/AboutPAWriter.html

radrat 2010-08-14 19:43:56

Another proprietary solution is [GEDitCOM](http://www.geditcom.com/)The trial version reverts to a fully functional read-only interface to a GEDCOM file at the end of the trial period. Still, I'd like to see something (1) open source, (2) with an active community, (3) with read AND write support.

radrat 2010-08-14 20:00:40

... and I have just discovered that there's an objective C iPhone app called [GedView](http://www.ritter.demon.co.uk/Projects/gedview.html) (closed source as well). The developer of GedView has written a GPL application in .NET called [Gedcom.NET](http://www.ritter.demon.co.uk/Projects/gedcom.net.html)(here's the SF project [page](http://sourceforge.net/projects/gedcom-net/))

radrat 2010-08-14 20:10:40

Did you check out GRAMPS? (Written in Python, using Gtk. So it doesn't look native on OSX, but works.)

Hraban 2010-10-01 17:00:46

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