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 d

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 imple

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 ta

Re: bbdb - future diretions

2000-10-29 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hm. If I find time today, I'll try to hack together a little ERD in dia > so you can see what I'm talking about. Done. You can look at it at http://www.htlwrn.ac.at/d96001/bbdb/bbdb-er.html>. Have Fun, -- Andreas Fuchs, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECT

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

Re: bbdb - future diretions

2000-10-29 Thread Andreas Fuchs
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 contains all notes field names (and an ID), a