Re: MELPA BBDB - bbdb-version

[George McNinch]

Hi--

RW> On Sat Nov 21 2015 George McNinch wrote:
>> That was actually inaccurate - I had failed to snip a setting of
>> load-path pointing to a directory for bbdb that I had populated
>> via git (and that seemed to be the version of bbdb being used).

RW> Which git repository did you use?  The "official" repository is

RW>   git.savannah.nongnu.org/bbdb.git

>> , | bbdb-version is a variable defined in ‘bbdb-site.el’.  |
>> Its value is "@PACKAGE_VERSION@" `

RW> You need to properly `make' BBDB (see the README file in the
RW> repository) in order to get a meaningful value assigned to
RW> bbdb-version.


The version I have via *git* works fine for me.

RW> If you just compile the elisp files from the git repository and
RW> also when you get BBDB from Melpa the variable bbdb-version has
RW> the meaningless value "@PACKAGE_VERSION@".

This behavior of a MELPA install is what I was trying to report.  Surely
there is *some* way to have the MELPA install process "properly make"
BBDB?

Well, perhaps this is not such a huge issue.

-gm

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Re: eudc conversion to bbdb (in bbdb3.1.2?)

[George McNinch]

FWIW: the original subject heading contained a typo...

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eudc conversion to bbdb (in bbdb3.2?)

[George McNinch]

Hi,

I'm using "git-emacs"

emacs-version => "25.1.50.1"

and elpa bbdb

bbdb-version => "3.1.2" (via ELPA)

If I do M-x eudc-query, find a record corresponding to a contact not in
my bbdb , and try to add it to my bbdb via "b" (more precisely, by the
function "eudc-try-bbdb-insert")

I get an error - this is what appears in *Messages*:

bbdb-change-record: Wrong type argument: listp, "john@tufts.edu"

After doing the above command, looking at the "raw" bbdb file there is
indeed a record corresponding to John Doe, and the email address that
appears in that record seems garbled compared to the other records (it
comes out something like the following:

["John Q." "Doe" nil "john@tufts.edu" nil nil nil nil
((creation-date . "2015-11-15 15:24:49 +") (timestamp . "2015-11-15
15:24:49 +")) nil]

-- in other records in my bbdb file, the email address(es) seems
to be "inside a list".)


Maybe the problem is just that the eudc conversion tools (in
eudc-export.el) are only aimed at pre-version 3 bbdb? perhaps those
tools create records that are incompatible with bbdb3?

For what it is worth, this is the 2nd time I've thought about this
matter. I tried to make this sort of conversion work 6 months or so
ago. At that time I think I seem to have thought there was also trouble
with phone numbers, so I had made the following simplification [in an
attempt to get things working a little bit, at least...]:

,
| eudc-ldap-bbdb-conversion-alist
| 
| Value: ((name . cn)
|  (net . mail)
|  (address eudc-bbdbify-address postaladdress "Address"))
| 
| Original value was 
| ((name . cn)
|  (net . mail)
|  (address eudc-bbdbify-address postaladdress "Address")
|  (phone
|   (eudc-bbdbify-phone telephonenumber "Phone")))
`

but this doesn't help with the error I mention above (and I put the
problem down for a while).

So: am I doing something bone-headed? Is there some way to make things
work? Maybe a smarter setting of the eudc-ldap-bbdb-conversion-alist
variable just mentioned? 

Many thanks for help or suggestions,
George McNinch

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