On August 22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Please do not release 2.33 unless it has the same behavior
> as 2.32 in this area.
There are currently a number of things about the head of CVS that I
don't particularly like, but constraints on my time have prevented me
from hacking on them. Here's an approximate list, in no particular
order, of things I should really be working on:
1. The method of displaying all records associated with the current
email is unwieldy.
2. The hook functions aren't told if a record is From (and therefore
should be parsed for extra info) or To, CC, etc.
3. The current display function doesn't put blank space between
multiple BBDB records
4. The pop-up menu doesn't have "Delete this record".
5. Performance sucks if you have a large BBDB buffer open. This is to
do with how "well" Emacs handles overlays - the problem apparently
doesn't happen in XEmacs
6. There should be a default make target; you shouldn't have to
configure AND make some-specific-thing
7. If I create RPMs and .debs myself, then people will stop creating
ones that do bad stuff and cause me to get bug reports for code I
didn't write. Well, in theory, anyway. Haha. Sure.
8. Parsing of addresses still isn't properly sorted out, although IMHO
bbdb-rfc822-addresses is doing a far better job than the snarfy
function.
9. On GNU Emacs, there's some bogosity about the noticing of
file-changed-on-disk-while-BBDB-wasn't-looking.
10. Completion, in general, needs work; particularly the pop-up
buffer.
11. I have a half-dozen or more bits of code lying around that haven't
been integrated; some haven't even been updated from 2.00.06.
12. It's STILL not smart enough to do my day job for me.
I am, at present, resisting the urge to go off and build on what I've
learned from BBDB to create a compatible but newer codebase. I am also
resisting at present a sorry desire to build emacs 18.59 and kick BBDB
until it works there, but that's sheer madness - the current codebase
didn't build cleanly on Emacs 19. I think I'll try do some work on
some of the above issues this evening.
Robert (Fenk), if you've got outstanding code at the moment can you
let me know, because if I'm going to start making big changes to the
codebase then it's going to mess up anything you've not commited.
Cheers,
Waider. Finally, my dialup problems seem to have been cured. HURRAH.
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"When you say `I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare
at you blankly and say `Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'"
- Linus Torvalds
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