On Sat Aug 11 2012 Sriram Karra wrote: > Further, "throwing them away" could just be stashing the fields > into the notes list.
Certainly. But if you then decide to give v3 a second try, you will not get back what you had before. > Just for the record, can you tell us about all the changes in the > file format? I know: > > - a new field called "affix" now appears as the third field of the record > - organizations is a list instead of a ';' delimited string. The above is correct. Also, there is one Notes field in each record which usually holds the list of note fields, which in turn are cons pairs (KEY . VALUE). Some pieces of BBDB v2 also allowed the Notes field to be a single string, instead of the list of cons pairs. I do not know whether this was just a historical thing left over in the code, or whether this was still a fully supported feature. V3 definitely relies on having a list of cons pairs (KEY . VALUE) in the Notes field and bbdb-migrate converts a single Notes string accordingly. Obviously, going back to a Notes field with a single string would break pretty much everything. For the other things, someone could write a function bbdb-unmigrate to go back to v2 and post it here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
