"Roland Winkler" <wink...@gnu.org> writes: > On Sun, Nov 10 2013, Sean Sieger wrote: >> Please indulge me, >> >> BBDB's not one of those cumbersome, corner-use-case, libraries >> is it? >> >> Why isn't it included in GNU Emacs? >> >> Does it belong in the ELPA? >> >> It's here: git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/bbdb.git > > I'd love to include the new BBDB 3 in GNU Elpa, or yet better GNU Emacs. > The main obstacle for this is that while large portions of the BBDB code > have been re-written pretty much from scratch, there remains the > somewhat tedious task to go over the new code and check more carefully > which portions of the old code have remained and then either get > copyright assignments for these portions or replace them by something > else.
An intermediate step would be to put it in some other repository, hopefully gaining more users, and thus a larger pool of potential volunteers. I have no idea how practical other repositories are. I also have a package that will be ready for a repository soon, so I'd like to find out ... -- -- Stephe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
