On Mon Oct 24 2011 Carson Chittom wrote: > "Roland Winkler" <wink...@gnu.org> writes: > > -- How did you run into this? Did you try to compile BBDB with an > > older version of GNU Emacs. I guess this might give you a longer > > list of compilation errors. > > Yes, that's it exactly---I'm trying to use it with Emacs 22. There were > some warnings during compilation, but nothing fatal. I'll be glad to > document those, if you like.
I see your point. -- Up to now I have not yet thought about this. You are the first one bringing this up on this list... If you can post here a list of all warnings etc form the compiler, it could give us some idea which pieces of code are possibly not backward compatible. > I understand your reticence, but my reasoning is thus: BBDB3 works, > sort of, with Emacs 22[1]. Every time so far I've gotten an error, it's > for Emacs to complain about not knowing what special-mode is; given > that, I thought it would be the logical place for someone wanting to get > things working on <=22 to start. I don't know what an appropriate solution could look like. I would not want to modify the "main code" for compatibility with older versions of emacs. Without having thought about details, I'd prefer a separate file that implements somehow the backward compatiblity. > If you don't want it in the README, maybe instead I should file a > lowish-priority bug on Savannah? (Are we using the Savannah bug > tracker?) That way if anybody with more skills than I feels motivated, > it can get fixed. Up to now the number of contributors has been somewhat limited... > [1] bbdb-create works, gathering names and addresses from mail works > (with an error message sometimes, but still working), but displaying > the results of a search doesn't work. Here I'd be worried that something could screw up the database itself which could be nasty to repair. Roland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. Take a complimentary Learning@Cisco Self-Assessment and learn about Cisco certifications, training, and career opportunities. http://p.sf.net/sfu/cisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
