Leo <sdl....@gmail.com> writes: > On 2011-04-06 15:22 +0800, Didier Verna wrote: >> Not everybody agrees with this necessarily. I'm using BBDB much more >> often on my computers than anywhere else and I'm happy to update them >> manually from time to time on other devices. > > Sure. But these users can still use BBDB the way they intend to. Support > for an external format doesn't force them to use it.
Have to agree with this. I'm a long-time user of BBDB, but it has always been frustrating (and basically impossible) to try to sync information between BBDB and other contact database (essentially only BBDB to "other" is practical; true syncing just doesn't work). I think that the argument in the past against changing BBDB's "database" format, has always been that emacs parsing of a more generic vcard/cvs/XML format would be too slow. I should also admit that from my playing around with various phones, email clients, gmail, etc, it appears that it is not always straightforward to transfer contact information back and for between clients that ARE supposed to support, e.g., vcard. My recollection is that things as trivial as whether or not a field name is upper or lower case can cause problems for some clients. But the fact that some other clients may be broken shouldn't in itself be taken as a reason for BBDB not to support data exchange in some standard format. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
