> In other words, what is OpenOffice.org's philosophy about where to
integrate
> new address books (within mozab or as their own module)?
Definitely as own module. Over time, the mozab module has become difficult to maintain, due to its dependency on a complex piece of external code (basically a stripped Mozilla/Seamonkey version), which is
external code (basically a stripped Mozilla/Seamonkey version), which is evolving itself.
Thank you for the very clear answer. That makes a lot of sense.
If you need inspiration :), I suggest looking at the KDE address book driver. It was done by Éric Bischoff a while ago, is located in connectivity/source/drivers/kab, a self-contained driver dedicated to this one address book only, and it's probably the cleanest piece of address book code you can find in our repository.
I will start there. Thank you! - Omer.
