Re: [O] bbdb or bbdb3 or org-contacts

2013-02-21 Thread Sriram Karra
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 1:52 PM, David Rogers davidandrewrog...@gmail.comwrote: Also look at ASynK, which can synchronize between Google and bbdb3: https://karra-asynk.appspot.com/ ASynK also works with BBDB v2 with a small-ish patch that adds timestamp support. As no one is really

Re: [O] bbdb or bbdb3 or org-contacts

2013-02-14 Thread Bastien
Hi Greg, Daimrod daim...@gmail.com writes: I think I haven't been clear, I would like to have write access to the upstream repository to merge my changes Great -- please send me your public key. but I will also keep my github version as a bleeding edge version to make it easier to test and

Re: [O] bbdb or bbdb3 or org-contacts

2013-02-13 Thread Bastien
Hi Grégoire, Daimrod daim...@gmail.com writes: See the attached patch files. I still need to need to take into account what could be after the cursor I've applied the patch against org-contacts.el, thanks for it. Do you want write access to the repo for maintaining org-contacts.el?

Re: [O] bbdb or bbdb3 or org-contacts

2013-02-13 Thread joakim
Bastien b...@altern.org writes: Hi Grégoire, Daimrod daim...@gmail.com writes: See the attached patch files. I still need to need to take into account what could be after the cursor I've applied the patch against org-contacts.el, thanks for it. Do you want write access to the repo for

Re: [O] bbdb or bbdb3 or org-contacts

2013-02-13 Thread Daimrod
Bastien b...@altern.org writes: Hi Grégoire, Daimrod daim...@gmail.com writes: See the attached patch files. I still need to need to take into account what could be after the cursor I've applied the patch against org-contacts.el, thanks for it. Thank you. Do you want write access to

Re: [O] bbdb or bbdb3 or org-contacts

2013-02-13 Thread Bastien
Hi Greg, Daimrod daim...@gmail.com writes: However, I think I'll keep my public repository on github to test new features and merge them into upstream when I think they're ready. And if people can test them before that, it's even better. no problem, don't hesitate to share the patches.

Re: [O] bbdb or bbdb3 or org-contacts

2013-02-13 Thread Daimrod
Bastien b...@altern.org writes: Hi Greg, Daimrod daim...@gmail.com writes: However, I think I'll keep my public repository on github to test new features and merge them into upstream when I think they're ready. And if people can test them before that, it's even better. no problem, don't

Re: [O] bbdb or bbdb3 or org-contacts

2013-02-13 Thread Gour
Daimrod daim...@gmail.com writes: I would love to. I've made some changes to `org-contacts.el' and Joakim has been very kind to test them, but there is still a lot of room for improvements (and bugs). Thank you for taking care about org-contacts which makes me inspired to try using it for my

Re: [O] bbdb or bbdb3 or org-contacts

2013-02-03 Thread Dieter Wilhelm
Thank you very much for all the input. So in summary it is on the safe side to use bbdb for a transition period because neither the maintainability of bbdb3 nor org-contacts seem to be ensured. Dieter PS: I hope future developments will bring forth a stable database solution

Re: [O] bbdb or bbdb3 or org-contacts

2013-02-03 Thread Gour
Dieter Wilhelm die...@duenenhof-wilhelm.de writes: So in summary it is on the safe side to use bbdb for a transition period Yes. because neither the maintainability of bbdb3 nor org-contacts seem to be ensured. Why do you think that maintainability of bbdb3 is not safe? To me looks that

Re: [O] bbdb or bbdb3 or org-contacts

2013-02-01 Thread joakim
Daimrod daim...@gmail.com writes: Bastien b...@altern.org writes: Hi Dieter, Dieter Wilhelm die...@duenenhof-wilhelm.de writes: What do you advise, what is already usable and what is the way ahead, still bbdb or bbdb3 or already org-contacts? BBDB is great. org-contacts.el is too slow

Re: [O] bbdb or bbdb3 or org-contacts

2013-02-01 Thread Daimrod
joa...@verona.se writes: Daimrod daim...@gmail.com writes: Bastien b...@altern.org writes: Hi Dieter, Dieter Wilhelm die...@duenenhof-wilhelm.de writes: What do you advise, what is already usable and what is the way ahead, still bbdb or bbdb3 or already org-contacts? BBDB is great.

Re: [O] bbdb or bbdb3 or org-contacts

2013-01-30 Thread Bastien
Hi Dieter, Dieter Wilhelm die...@duenenhof-wilhelm.de writes: What do you advise, what is already usable and what is the way ahead, still bbdb or bbdb3 or already org-contacts? BBDB is great. org-contacts.el is too slow when you have many contacts, and it is not really maintained anymore.

Re: [O] bbdb or bbdb3 or org-contacts

2013-01-30 Thread Daimrod
Bastien b...@altern.org writes: Hi Dieter, Dieter Wilhelm die...@duenenhof-wilhelm.de writes: What do you advise, what is already usable and what is the way ahead, still bbdb or bbdb3 or already org-contacts? BBDB is great. org-contacts.el is too slow when you have many contacts, and it

Re: [O] bbdb or bbdb3 or org-contacts

2013-01-30 Thread Bastien
Hi Greg, Daimrod daim...@gmail.com writes: BBDB is great. org-contacts.el is too slow when you have many contacts, and it is not really maintained anymore. I've started to use org-contacts.el. I haven't (yet) problem with its speed but I've improved the completion mecanism which prevented

Re: [O] bbdb or bbdb3 or org-contacts

2013-01-30 Thread Gour
Bastien b...@altern.org writes: BBDB is great. org-contacts.el is too slow when you have many contacts, and it is not really maintained anymore. Do you find its flexible-enough in comparison with org-contacts when one wants to add some custom structure? Otoh, I'm also worried about

Re: [O] bbdb or bbdb3 or org-contacts

2013-01-30 Thread Bastien
Hi Gour, Gour g...@atmarama.net writes: Bastien b...@altern.org writes: BBDB is great. org-contacts.el is too slow when you have many contacts, and it is not really maintained anymore. Do you find its flexible-enough in comparison with org-contacts when one wants to add some custom

Re: [O] bbdb or bbdb3 or org-contacts

2013-01-28 Thread David Rogers
Dieter Wilhelm die...@duenenhof-wilhelm.de writes: Hi list, I just took up again the Gnus newsreader! Formerly I used it in conjunction with bbdb. It would be nice if I had the possibility to (re)use my contacts from gmail. What do you advise, what is already usable and what is the way