And while we're all here... A while ago there was a very brief exchange about the possibility of a version of BBDB refactored on top of the EIEIO object orientation library. I've been thinking about that for a while, and recently wrote a sort of prototype. I'd like to share it with everyone, either as an attachment to the list, or I guess preferably by pushing a branch to the git repo.
There isn't anything particularly wrong with BBDB that needs fixing, but an OO version of the database does lots of good things, mostly in the direction of extension and customization. It also gets us free file serialization courtesy of eieio-persistent, and I've added in support for multiple databases. One semi-serious problem is that EIEIO is under development, and a bit of a moving target. This version of BBDB would likely only reliably work with a development version of Emacs. But if we're considering bundling BBDB with Emacs anyway, that might be okay. Right now it's kind of a code sketch. You can load it, and it works fine in an IELM session, it's just very rudimentary. Basically I put in enough effort that it can serve as the basis for a design discussion, but not so much that I would feel bad about dumping large parts of the code, or scrapping it altogether. Anyway, if there's interest, I can push a branch or something... Thanks, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
