Re: BBDB V3 export

2012-03-14 Thread Sriram ET.
2012/3/13 Ted Zlatanov t...@lifelogs.com With CouchDB, I can easily export individual records from JSON back to the BBDB vector format. I'll do similar work for file and other backends. I'll make it possible to use LDAP and SQLite but I wouldn't use them, personally. LDAP requires a very

Re: BBDB V3 export

2012-03-13 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:49:32 +0530 Sriram ET. karra@gmail.com wrote: SE On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Brett Presnell presn...@stat.ufl.eduwrote: SE Just FYI, back in October 2011 Ted Zlatanov t...@lifelogs.com wrote on this list: I put together some code that uses CouchDB to store

Re: BBDB V3 export

2012-03-11 Thread Brett Presnell
Philipp Haselwarter philipp.haselwar...@gmx.de writes: Personally this is the feature I miss most in BBDB. Searching my phone contacts to type in information manually into BBDB is just annoying. What kind of work would be required (in bbdb itself, on the protocol level, glue code) to make

Re: BBDB V3 export

2012-03-06 Thread Sam Steingold
The correct term is not `export'. The correct term is `sync'. Once you have thousands records in your phone contacts and bbdb, exporting/importing is a waste of time: you will need to sync/merge the records by hand and it is unfeasible. Somehow gmail manages to sync its contacts with android. We

Re: BBDB V3 export

2012-03-06 Thread markd
Hi Sam, Sam Steingold s...@gnu.org writes: The correct term is not `export'. The correct term is `sync'. Yes, what one really wants is sync. However, it's a non-trivial problem. Once you have thousands records in your phone contacts and bbdb, exporting/importing is a waste of time: you

BBDB V3 export

2012-03-05 Thread markd
Is anyone working on or through about export support for BBDB V3? My particular need is for Google export, however I suspect iPhone users may also need this. For V2, I use the unofficial bbdb-to-outlook package to create a CSV for import into Google. Seems something actually geared towards

Re: BBDB V3 export

2012-03-05 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
On Tue, Mar 06 2012, ma...@kermodei.com wrote: Is anyone working on or through about export support for BBDB V3? My particular need is for Google export, however I suspect iPhone users may also need this. For V2, I use the unofficial bbdb-to-outlook package to create a CSV for import into