BBDB synchronization with cell phones (was: Moving BBDB from CVS to BZR)

2008-04-16 Thread Reiner Steib
On Mon, Mar 17 2008, Brett Presnell wrote: I use bbdb-vcard-export.el to dump stuff out of bbdb (not sure what you use). Improving synchronization with cell phones would be very nice. Back in 2004, I did some work on `bbdb-gnokii.el'[1], which exports BBDB entries in a format suitable for

Re: Moving BBDB from CVS to BZR

2008-03-27 Thread Martin Geisler
Robert Widhopf-Fenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 08:36:12, Martin Geisler wrote: [...] Ah, okay. I have just made a small test there I renamed and edited a file in one clone and made another edit to the file in another clone. I could merge the changes just fine:

Re: Moving BBDB from CVS to BZR

2008-03-26 Thread Martin Geisler
Robert Widhopf-Fenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 08:53:30, Martin Geisler wrote: If you mean the ability to rename files and have hg know about it, then you: 'hg rename' does what you expect. If you refer to the issue about renamed files taking up twice the

Re: Moving BBDB from CVS to BZR

2008-03-26 Thread Robert Widhopf-Fenk
On Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 08:36:12, Martin Geisler wrote: [...] Ah, okay. I have just made a small test there I renamed and edited a file in one clone and made another edit to the file in another clone. I could merge the changes just fine: I ended up with a renamed file containing both

Re: Moving BBDB from CVS to BZR

2008-03-25 Thread Robert Widhopf-Fenk
On Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 08:53:30, Martin Geisler wrote: Robert Widhopf-Fenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Has proper rename support finally landed in hg? If you mean the ability to rename files and have hg know about it, then you: 'hg rename' does what you expect. If you

Re: Moving BBDB from CVS to BZR

2008-03-21 Thread Alex Ott
Hello all SA == Suno Ano writes: SA [0] http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/DistributedVersionControl SA http://download.gna.org/dvc/ SA http://fsw.gsfc.nasa.gov/GDS/dvc-intro.html and then there is of SA course the mailing list (also carried on Gmane) I just published short article about

Re: Moving BBDB from CVS to BZR

2008-03-19 Thread Suno Ano
into that ... As has been pointed out already, DVC (Distributed Version Control) [0] should make things a lot easier no matter what SCM it is going to be (GIT, BZR, HG, etc.). I, as many others, use DVC on a daily basis. It makes live a lot easier for me since I do not have to know any syntax

Re: Moving BBDB from CVS to BZR

2008-03-19 Thread Gour
Suno == Suno Ano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Suno into that ... As has been pointed out already, DVC (Distributed Suno Version Control) [0] should make things a lot easier no matter Suno what SCM it is going to be (GIT, BZR, HG, etc.). Yeah...unfortunately darcs back-end is not up to with others

Re: Moving BBDB from CVS to BZR

2008-03-19 Thread Didier Verna
Robert Widhopf-Fenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And you didn't advocate hg or darcs ;-) I got fed up with fighting :-) In XEmacs, we recently switched to Mercurial... I know. Do you have any reference on the decisions-making, I am always curious how projects switching from CVS select one

Re: Moving BBDB from CVS to BZR

2008-03-19 Thread Martin Geisler
Robert Widhopf-Fenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Has proper rename support finally landed in hg? If you mean the ability to rename files and have hg know about it, then you: 'hg rename' does what you expect. If you refer to the issue about renamed files taking up twice the space you would

Re: Moving BBDB from CVS to BZR

2008-03-18 Thread Robert Widhopf-Fenk
On Sunday, March 16, 2008 at 20:06:26, Brett Presnell wrote: Robert Widhopf-Fenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Different back end storage has been discussed before and it would be a major effort to implement that and probably will slow down BBDB. Yes, I figured that. But it might help

Re: Moving BBDB from CVS to BZR

2008-03-18 Thread Robert Widhopf-Fenk
On Monday, March 17, 2008 at 10:01:57, gour wrote: Robert == Robert Widhopf-Fenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Robert! Robert It is easier for all developers to use better tools. If there is no release for longer time, I'm definitely more inclined to pull (being familiar with distributed

Re: Moving BBDB from CVS to BZR

2008-03-18 Thread Brett Presnell
Robert Widhopf-Fenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What program does the sending? I don't really know. This is one instance when I just use the GUI stuff. I open up a gnome file-browser thingy, right click on the .vcf file, and choose Send or Send to ... or whatever it is, and then select

Re: Moving BBDB from CVS to BZR

2008-03-18 Thread Robert Widhopf-Fenk
On Monday, March 17, 2008 at 15:09:51, Didier Verna wrote: Robert Widhopf-Fenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think about moving the BBDB repository from CVS to BZR and host it on https://launchpad.net instead of sourceforge.net. So what do the other developers with CVS write access think

Re: Moving BBDB from CVS to BZR

2008-03-17 Thread Gour
Robert == Robert Widhopf-Fenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Robert! Robert It is easier for all developers to use better tools. If there is no release for longer time, I'm definitely more inclined to pull (being familiar with distributed rcs) from bzr repo than using CVS. Robert Gosh, everyone

Re: Moving BBDB from CVS to BZR

2008-03-17 Thread Didier Verna
Robert Widhopf-Fenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think about moving the BBDB repository from CVS to BZR and host it on https://launchpad.net instead of sourceforge.net. So what do the other developers with CVS write access think about this? I'm a bit reluctant to learn yet another VCS. In

Re: Moving BBDB from CVS to BZR

2008-03-17 Thread Didier Verna
Gour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dvl == Didier Verna [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dvl I'm a bit reluctant to learn yet another VCS. In my lab, we went dvl from CVS, PRCS to SVN and some of my collegues are starting to use dvl Git. In XEmacs, we recently switched to Mercurial... Heh, now it's

Re: Moving BBDB from CVS to BZR

2008-03-16 Thread Robert Widhopf-Fenk
On Monday, March 10, 2008 at 22:25:35, Ronan Waide wrote: On 10 Mar 2008, at 22:17, Robert Widhopf-Fenk wrote: Hi, I think about moving the BBDB repository from CVS to BZR and host it on https://launchpad.net instead of sourceforge.net. Actually, I use BZR internally already for

Re: Moving BBDB from CVS to BZR

2008-03-16 Thread Brett Presnell
Robert Widhopf-Fenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gosh, everyone is moving away :-/ No, some of us are just quiet because we don't have much to contribute (my elisp programming skill are fairly nonexistent). I do wonder sometime whether bbdb shouldn't be rewritten to just use standard vcard

Re: Moving BBDB from CVS to BZR

2008-03-16 Thread Robert Widhopf-Fenk
On Sunday, March 16, 2008 at 17:01:32, Brett Presnell wrote: Robert Widhopf-Fenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gosh, everyone is moving away :-/ No, some of us are just quiet because we don't have much to contribute (my elisp programming skill are fairly nonexistent). I do wonder

Re: Moving BBDB from CVS to BZR

2008-03-16 Thread Brett Presnell
Robert Widhopf-Fenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Different back end storage has been discussed before and it would be a major effort to implement that and probably will slow down BBDB. Yes, I figured that. But it might help if the fields and modifiers/tags (e.g., Work rather than Office, Voice

Re: Moving BBDB from CVS to BZR

2008-03-13 Thread Jochen Küpper
Hi Robert, thanks for asking and good luck with bbdb - it is a fun piece of software! However, I am no longer using Gnus (or any other Emacs based MUA) and, therefore, do not use bbdb anymore;-( I am not affected at all. Greetings, Jochen -- Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit

Re: Moving BBDB from CVS to BZR

2008-03-13 Thread Alex
Hi all I am no longer using BBDB either, so I won't mind. Good luck! Cheers Alex On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Jochen Küpper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Robert, thanks for asking and good luck with bbdb - it is a fun piece of software! However, I am no longer using Gnus (or any

Re: Moving BBDB from CVS to BZR

2008-03-11 Thread Suno Ano
| On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:17:44 +0100, | Robert Widhopf-Fenk | who can be reached at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (whose comments are cited below with Robert ), | had this to say in article [EMAIL PROTECTED] | in newsgroups gmane.emacs.bbdb.user | concerning the subject of Moving BBDB from CVS

Re: Moving BBDB from CVS to BZR

2008-03-11 Thread Stefan Reichör
Ronan Waide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 10 Mar 2008, at 22:17, Robert Widhopf-Fenk wrote: Hi, I think about moving the BBDB repository from CVS to BZR and host it on https://launchpad.net instead of sourceforge.net. Actually, I use BZR internally already for BBDB and do a somewhat

Re: Moving BBDB from CVS to BZR

2008-03-10 Thread Ronan Waide
On 10 Mar 2008, at 22:17, Robert Widhopf-Fenk wrote: Hi, I think about moving the BBDB repository from CVS to BZR and host it on https://launchpad.net instead of sourceforge.net. Actually, I use BZR internally already for BBDB and do a somewhat painful syncing with CVS ... But I have