"Roland Winkler" <wink...@gnu.org> writes:

> On Tue May 28 2013 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>> I once half-jokingly suggested rewriting BBDB to use the EIEIO object
>> system. The joke part was only because it would be a hell of a lot of
>> work: actually I think an OO-type system is pretty much ideal for what
>> BBDB does. Advantages I can think of:
>
> Actually, without knowing too much about EIEIO, I believe that such
> a thing would be doable.  I already tried to separate different
> layers of the code as much as possible.
>
> Not sure. Many nitty-gritty details of BBDB internals are related to
> the MUA interfaces of BBDB.

Yup, I think changes would be confined to bbdb.el.

>> It's still more or less pie-in-the-sky, but I think it makes a lot of
>> sense in principle.
>
> Well, this could become BBDB v4

I had imagined you'd find that thought somewhat exhausting, having only
just finished v3, but if not that's great!

E


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