>> Regarding Re: BBDB beginners guide?; "Roland Winkler" <wink...@gnu.org> adds:
> I believe that these things cannot be seen independently. I believe > that a main reason why BBDB did not evolve anymore for quite some > time was related to the fact that its code had reached a stage that > made it very difficult for anyone to make any changes to it. > Initially, when I started with this project, I tried to keep the > code more backward compatible. Yet at some point, I realized that I > would not get anywhere with my attempts, unless I took more drastic > steps, i.e., the internals of BBDB have changed significantly. I can believe that. >> Well in that case defalias should be used for backward >> compatibility. > When my updates of BBDB were in a pre-alpha stage and I > did not yet have a detailed roadmap where they would > take me, I thought that there was really not much of a > point trying to continuously (at each intermediate > stage) preserve backward compatibility when it would > have been possible. > Now that the new code has reached a more mature stage, > it could make sense to look over it once more for > things like defaliases. (Yet this might require > checking things more carefully, as I also tried to make > the behavior of BBDB more consistent both with respect > to differents parts of BBDB as well as compared with > other packages of emacs.) I think this is a very important issue. As I said I had not the time of even trying it out. But now that I know that I have to check all sort of variables and dig into documentation I somehow hesitate to try. Bbdb is very mature and may be long time users like me feel the same way but I don't know for sure. Just out of curiosity what happened with the code I wrote (namely some splitting functionality for gnus, and I think also my selection of the ispell dictionary based on bbdb.) and Wyder patched in, did you rewrite the code, did you deleted it? Uwe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve Improved Network Security with IP and DNS Reputation. Defend against bad network traffic, including botnets, malware, phishing sites, and compromised hosts - saving your company time, money, and embarrassment. Learn More! http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpdev2dev-nov _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
