As I announced already in a previous email, I'd like to put now the new BBDB in a feature freeze with respect to my own lisp hacking.
So anybody who has followed the recent BBDB developments as an observer but was hesitant to actually give it a try, is much encouraged to try it now. (Yet to avoid confusion I need to empasize that the format of the database has changed. While BBDB should update to the new format automatically, it is certainly a good strategy to keep a copy of the old database in case anything unexpected happens. The new BBDB does not allow you to downgrade from the new to the old database format.) Most likely, there are still bugs and rough edges in the new code. I hope that these can be fixed soon (as soon as I learn about them!). Then I could actually set up a first release of the new BBDB. -- Recently, we have discussed on this list the possibility to import / export BBDB records via vcards. I think this is a great idea for BBDB. Yet it is not yet clear to me how this could be set up in the best way. (Thanks to everybody who commented on this issue on this list, which helped me to get an idea of what different people have in mind here. If there were not different opinions on such an issue, it would not be emacs we are talking about!) Yet I am convinced that adding such a feature to BBDB should be possible without the need to modify other code in BBDB (unlike various changes I found were necessary to bring BBDB up to date). In that sense I would like to put such a project on hold on my personal agenda and give a proper release of the new BBDB the higher priority. -- But let us know on this list if you start looking into a solution for this! Roland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
