Re: [BBDB] ChangeLog 2011-11-20
On 26 Nov, 2011, at 8:28 am, Roland Winkler wrote: On Thu Nov 24 2011 Stefan Monnier wrote: Yet the main thing for me is: My time is limited for such things; I need to set up priorities. Currently I find it more important to have a more coherent documentation of the new code including a proper up-to-date info manual. (Well, in the long run, a proper release wouldn't be bad either) If anybody else wants to work on this, please go ahead. In my opinion, the EmacsWiki UpgradeBBDB put up by Leo is a good starting point http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/UpgradeBBDB Please, contribute to it if you find anything noteworthy. Just added a few lines three or four days ago, immediately before joining this list. More questions than findings. Been meaning to learn some TeX-based ML. Infotex might be as good a place to start as any. Sadly I don't know BBDB at all yet. So, no domain knowledge, no implementation knowledge, the answer to your prayers. :-) Maybe I'll start with code doco, just standards compliance and formatting and filling in missing docstrings where I can. That'll help build the domain knowledge. Patches to the list, right? -- Phil Hudson http://hudson-it.no-ip.biz @UWascalWabbit PGP/GnuPG ID: 0x887DCA63 -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BBDB] ChangeLog 2011-11-20
On Sat Nov 26 2011 Philip Hudson wrote: Maybe I'll start with code doco, just standards compliance and formatting and filling in missing docstrings where I can. That'll help build the domain knowledge. Patches to the list, right? You'd like to provide documentation patches that are supposed to go into BBDB itself? They are welcome! You may want to take a look at the node Documentation in the elisp manual, as well as the node Documentation Tips in the appendix. Roland PS: If your patches become more substantial, I'd appreciate if you could please assign the copyright for your work on BBDB / Emacs to the Free Software foundation. This will help us to make BBDB free software, see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html For this, you should please fill out the questionaire below and send it to fsf-reco...@gnu.org. In the form below I inserted as program or package both Emacs and BBDB/Emacs because we want to make BBDB part of GNU Emacs. So if your copyright assignment covers both, this will make things easier in the future. Thanks a lot for your supporting BBDB / Emacs. - Please email the following information to fsf-reco...@gnu.org, and we will send you the assignment form for your past and future changes. Please use your full name as the subject line of the message. [What is the name of the program or package you're contributing to?] Emacs and BBDB/Emacs [Did you copy any files or text written by someone else in these changes? Even if that material is free software, we need to know about it.] [Do you have an employer who might have a basis to claim to own your changes? Do you attend a school which might make such a claim?] [For the copyright registration, what country are you a citizen of?] [What year were you born?] [Please write your email address here.] [Please write your snail address here.] [Which files have you changed so far, and which new files have you written so far?] -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BBDB] ChangeLog 2011-11-20
* Roland Winkler jvax...@tah.bet [2011-11-20 23:13:36 -0600]: On Sun Nov 20 2011 Sam Steingold wrote: as I said before, TRT is to use define-obsolete-function-alias define-obsolete-variable-alias This would require a simple one-to-one correspondence between function and variable names in BBDB v2 and v3 which is NOT the case. Only if the goal is to maintain backward compatibility, which is _not_ the case. The goal is to use the standard emacs functionality to automatically warn the users when they try to use obsolete variables and functions. -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on Ubuntu 11.10 (oneiric) X 11.0.11004000 http://camera.org http://memri.org http://pmw.org.il http://www.memritv.org http://dhimmi.com http://openvotingconsortium.org http://mideasttruth.com I may be getting older, but I refuse to grow up! -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BBDB] ChangeLog 2011-11-20
* Roland Winkler jvax...@tah.bet [2011-11-20 17:52:40 -0600]: The new command bbdb-undocumented-variables might help you to identify outdated variables. This displays a list of all undocumented variables in the bbdb- name space. this is a good start! still, this does not give me any information about the replacements for the obsolete variables. as I said before, TRT is to use define-obsolete-function-alias define-obsolete-variable-alias All variables in BBDB 3 now have a doc string. So if you set variables in your init file that are not used anymore by BBDB (so that they are not documented anymore either), these variables will be displayed by bbdb-undocumented-variables. (Unfortunately, this fails for outdated BBDB variables that are set via your personal `custom-file'. Let me know if you know a better solution for this.) just use apropos-internal and iterate over the symbols it returns, looking for those with 'custom properties set but no doc string. however, this is _not_ the right approach (see above) -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on Ubuntu 11.10 (oneiric) X 11.0.11004000 http://honestreporting.com http://www.PetitionOnline.com/tap12009/ http://camera.org http://jihadwatch.org http://thereligionofpeace.com You can have it good, soon or cheap. Pick two... -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BBDB] ChangeLog 2011-11-20
On Sun Nov 20 2011 Sam Steingold wrote: as I said before, TRT is to use define-obsolete-function-alias define-obsolete-variable-alias This would require a simple one-to-one correspondence between function and variable names in BBDB v2 and v3 which is NOT the case. A simple example from the latest patch: In BBDB v2 there was (defcustom bbdb-dwim-net-address-allow-redundancy nil *Non-nil means always use full name when sending mail, even if same as net. :group 'bbdb :type '(choice (const :tag Disallow redundancy nil) (const :tag Return only the net 'netonly) (const :tag Allow redundancy t))) See the undocumented option `netonly' meaning: Never use the full name but only the net address - which was not quite matching intuitive expectations for a variable with this name / this docstring. So now there is (defcustom bbdb-mail-avoid-redundancy nil Mail address to use for BBDB records when sending mail. If non-nil do not use full name in mail address when same as mail. If value is mail-only never use full name. :group 'bbdb-sendmail :type '(choice (const :tag Allow redundancy nil) (const :tag Never use full name 'mail-only) (const :tag Avoid redundancy t))) define-obsolete-variable-alias would not be too helpful here. Nobody requires you to switch to BBDB v3. But if you want to use it, at some point you will have to work your way through functions and variables, which are different from the old ones (see also the updated README file for more important examples regarding BBDB's MUA interfaces, where concepts have changed quite significantly). Roland -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
