bbdb3 manual
Eric Abrahamsen writes: > Glyn Millington writes: > >> I think Eric's suggestion/hint/encouragement about a bbdb(3) manual is >> probably the answer, but I'm not remotely qualified to tackle such a >> thing. I find that Google plus a certain amount of grubbing round in >> the source code usually get me there. > > I wrote about a third of one and then ran out of steam. Maybe I can dig > that up and provide it as a start... I'm trying to set up my bbdb address book again and in the course of that I stumbled upon the manual that comes with the melpa package. This prompted me to start a draft for a bbdb manual[1]. Can you please dig up the stuff you have so I can merge this with mine so we have at least a bare bones manual. Thanks Footnotes: [1] https://github.com/egli/bbdb/blob/master/doc/bbdb.org -- Christian Egli Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland -- Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785111&iu=/4140 ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Automated creation of ELPA package
Hi Roland I have some code which helps in creating an ELPA package based on the earlier work to migrate to autotools. Can you have a look at https://github.com/egli/bbdb/commit/8057095e5bef7826ce3cd2089a0d0168243a9e5f Thanks Christian -- Christian Egli Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland -- Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: Manual for BBDB 3
"Roland Winkler" writes: > Part of the problem is also copyright-related. The goal is to make > BBDB part of GNU Emacs, which requires that the copyright for all > its code (from all contributors) gets assigned to the FSF. The older > the code, the more difficult to find the authors and contributors. > The more BBDB gets rewritten, the less this is a problem. I've looked at the old manual and have been a bit overwhelmed by the task. There is a lot of material there by quite a few people. I don't know how easy it would be to hunt down the authors and ask them for permission to re-license the content with (I presume) GFDL (it is currently under some form of BSD license). On the other hand I would assume that some of the contents of the manual is no longer valid and can be scrapped, e.g. the internals section, comments about GNUS (the old newsreader before Gnus came along) or the integration with a phone dialer which only ever seemed to have worked on Solaris with a modem(?). Maybe the installation section could be scrapped if the aim is to get it integrated with Emacs. At the risk of loosing lot of material, maybe a more promising approach would be indeed to start from scratch, like Philipp Moeller has proposed (https://github.com/bo0ts/bbdb-v3). Thanks Christian -- Christian Egli Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: Manual for BBDB 3
"Roland Winkler" writes: > On Sun Nov 20 2011 Philipp Moeller wrote: >> So for now it is just looking at source and figuring things out. > > I am sorry, the updates in BBDB v3 are still work in progress. > The code itself is already fairly mature by now, but the rest > (documentation and installation support) is stil lacking behind. > > Volunteers welcome :-) Where would I find the source of the manual, i.e. the texinfo file? The git repo doesn't seem to contain the manual. The best I was able to find was at sourceforge (http://bbdb.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bbdb/bbdb/texinfo/bbdb.texinfo?revision=1.59) although I'm not sure how up-to-date this is. Thanks Christian -- Christian Egli Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
