>> Regarding Re: BBDB beginners guide?; Bruno Tavernier >> <tavernier.br...@gmail.com> adds: Hi Bruno,
> CC: To Roland > Hello Uwe, First of all I did not mean to attack you, sorry if I have caused that impression. > From bbdb home page it appears the code did not evolve > for a long time (Jan 2007). That is correct. (Same was true for VM) > I think Roland wrote bbbd 3.0 with the idea to remove > some crufts, enhance the clarity of the code > (function's description, etc.) So far so good, I appreciate that effort > and use more meaningful names. This, in my opinion, is a very bad idea. Taste is subjective and once names are chosen they become a convention. To break backward compatibility deliberately has no benefit I can think off. > From my point of view he managed to do it well. (I am > glad to see the project with a maintainer). So do I. > Also, I think that only a few variables were > changed. Well in that case defalias should be used for backward compatibility. > Updating my conf was not much of a big deal <- > I am not an emacs old timer, though. I don't have > strong habits yet. ;-) Well I am using it for almost 20 years. It is not the habit it is backward compatibility which bothers me. Regards Uwe Brauer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
