Re: bbdb - future diretions

2000-10-29 Thread Benjamin Rutt
Andreas Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 2000-10-28, Tom Perrine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If someone were to build such a PIB API, it seems that the hardest part would be to support the current "invent a new field on the fly" features. Nah, not at all. You could have a table that

Re: bbdb - future diretions

2000-10-29 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Benjamin Rutt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Modifying db schema is not trivial or elegant with any RDBMS that I've ever heard of. Besides, adding a new field on the fly is easy with the current bbdb implementation. Doing it with a RDBMS would be quite difficult, and many RDBMS

Re: bbdb - future diretions

2000-10-29 Thread Ronan Waide
On October 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Any thoughts? If this isn't appropriate discussion here, let me know. My stand on this would be no, no, no. Really. No. BBDB works quite nicely, with vast quantities of entries, using a flat file. The file is read using native emacsisms (there's some

Re: which bbdb?

2000-10-29 Thread Alex Lancaster
"KG" == Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KG 2.2 will help with syncing with a Palm, and all my colleages (and KG I) have one, now. "JK" == Jochen Küpper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JK Dunno, sorry. JK I can heartly suggest upgrading to the current head of cvs. See JK what others have