Re: Adding BBDB 3 core to Emacs

2015-11-21 Thread Stephen Leake
Thomas Fitzsimmons writes: > "Roland Winkler" writes: > >> One option could be to incorporate the core of BBDB into GNU Emacs >> and keep the loose ends in savannah.nongnu.org. BBDB has a long >> history of having a core plus many add-ons. > > I really

Re: eudc conversion to bbdb (in bbdb3.1.2?)

2015-11-21 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Roland Winkler writes: > On Sat, Nov 21 2015, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >> I might add to this a clearer API for the "noticing" functionality of >> BBDB -- ie, make it easier to write the hooks for "doing things to >> BBDB records when you receive mails from/compose mails to those

Re: Adding BBDB 3 core to Emacs

2015-11-21 Thread Roland Winkler
On Sat Nov 21 2015 John Wiegley wrote: > I would much prefer this to be in "tarball ELPA", so that it is > included in the distribution, but not a focus for the other > developers. Would there be any need to include it within core > itself? The question is to what extent one wants to consider

Re: MELPA BBDB - bbdb-version

2015-11-21 Thread Roland Winkler
On Sat Nov 21 2015 George McNinch wrote: > That was actually inaccurate - I had failed to snip a setting of > load-path pointing to a directory for bbdb that I had populated via git > (and that seemed to be the version of bbdb being used). Which git repository did you use? The "official"

Re: eudc conversion to bbdb (in bbdb3.1.2?)

2015-11-21 Thread Roland Winkler
On Sat, Nov 21 2015, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > I might add to this a clearer API for the "noticing" functionality of > BBDB -- ie, make it easier to write the hooks for "doing things to > BBDB records when you receive mails from/compose mails to those > records. I didn't see your posting on the

Re: eudc conversion to bbdb (in bbdb3.1.2?)

2015-11-21 Thread Roland Winkler
On Sat Nov 21 2015 Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > I guess was thinking that having a stable and ration API, rather > than just exporting some internal functions etc, might encourage > people to build good conduits to/from Google Contacts, Android, > iPhone, skype, etc etc. Sure, this was really

Re: MELPA BBDB - bbdb-version

2015-11-21 Thread George McNinch
Hi-- RW> On Sat Nov 21 2015 George McNinch wrote: >> That was actually inaccurate - I had failed to snip a setting of >> load-path pointing to a directory for bbdb that I had populated >> via git (and that seemed to be the version of bbdb being used). RW> Which git repository

Re: MELPA BBDB - bbdb-version

2015-11-21 Thread Roland Winkler
On Sat Nov 21 2015 George McNinch wrote: > This behavior of a MELPA install is what I was trying to report. > Surely there is *some* way to have the MELPA install process > "properly make" BBDB? I do not know many details about MELPA. Yet it uses an automated scheme where I was told it was not

Re: Adding BBDB 3 core to Emacs

2015-11-21 Thread Roland Winkler
On Sat Nov 21 2015 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Didn't BBDB have some copyright issues that precluded its > distribution with Emacs or under the same license? (Apologies if > I'm misremembering.) No, you are perfectly right. BBDB v2 *did* have copyright issues. BBDB v3 on savannah.nongnu.org is