Cool, thanks Roland. I’ll continue to use that creation function. How would I go about contributing to BBDB? Should I simply post patches to the mailing list, or would I have go to through the whole GNU copyright assignment process (which I am happy doing)?
To ease your reviewing load, I’ll include tests in patches using ERT, where necessary. - Vincent On 11 December 2013 at 17:49:15 , Roland Winkler (wink...@gnu.org) wrote: > >On Sun Dec 8 2013 Roland Winkler wrote: >> Actually, I do not know whether I want to advertise at all the usage >> of bbdb-create-internal. I think it is really just a left-over from >> bbdb 2, which (to the best of my knowledge) was not used then >> either. >> >> This function promises to perform "a fair amount of error-checking >> on the passed in values, so it is safe to call this from other >> programs." But when is this really helpful? I cannot imagine any >> reasonably clean code calling this function that would need such a >> feature and benefit from it. > >I have realized that what I said above was not quite correct. The >function bbdb-create-internal makes more sense than what I thought. >I realized that it is even used once by BBDB 3; and then I had to >refresh my memories how the different pieces of code are working >together. > >So the bottom line is that now I am quite convinced that it does >make sense for the bbdb vcard interface to use bbdb-create-internal > >I am currently rather busy with other things. But I wanted to post >this clarification anyway. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
