Re: BBDB ELPA-style packaging

2011-02-28 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:48:38 -0600 Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org wrote: RW On Wed Feb 23 2011 Ted Zlatanov wrote: On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 10:54:12 -0600 Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org wrote: Could you consider moving to Git or Bazaar for development? CVS is very inconvenient. I can't use it

bbdb anniversaries [was: BBDB ELPA-style packaging]

2011-02-28 Thread Roland Winkler
On Sun Feb 27 2011 Roland Winkler wrote: On Wed Feb 23 2011 Ted Zlatanov wrote: RW I'll try to make some kind of table that shows how the functionality RW in the current code (functions and variables) relates to the old RW BBDB code. Then hopefully it will become more clear to what extent

Re: BBDB ELPA-style packaging

2011-02-27 Thread Roland Winkler
On Wed Feb 23 2011 Ted Zlatanov wrote: On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 10:54:12 -0600 Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org wrote: RW On Thu Jan 20 2011 Ted Zlatanov wrote: Let me know when you've figured out what portions and authors need to be tracked down. I'll work with Chong Yidong and you to do it.

Re: BBDB ELPA-style packaging

2011-02-23 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 10:54:12 -0600 Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org wrote: RW On Thu Jan 20 2011 Ted Zlatanov wrote: Let me know when you've figured out what portions and authors need to be tracked down. I'll work with Chong Yidong and you to do it. RW I'll try to make some kind of table that

Re: BBDB ELPA-style packaging

2011-01-20 Thread Roland Winkler
On Wed Jan 19 2011 Ted Zlatanov wrote: I'd be OK with providing BBDB3 in a beta form through elpa.gnu.org. As long as the version string states it clearly, which it will. You are likely to get plenty of feedback. Feedback is always appreciated! A rewrite is the worst case, where you can't

Re: BBDB ELPA-style packaging

2011-01-20 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:17:27 -0600 Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org wrote: RW On Wed Jan 19 2011 Ted Zlatanov wrote: A rewrite is the worst case, where you can't find the original contributor or they are not willing to assign the copyright to the FSF. RW Some pieces of BBDB in their original

Re: BBDB ELPA-style packaging

2011-01-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
I'd be OK with providing BBDB3 in a beta form through elpa.gnu.org. As long as the version string states it clearly, which it will. You are likely to get plenty of feedback. Feedback is always appreciated! Talking about feedback: is there some warning/discussion about the change of format

Re: BBDB ELPA-style packaging

2011-01-19 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 07:24:18 -0600 Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org wrote: RW On Fri Dec 17 2010 Ted Zlatanov wrote: You should decide: - do you want to take patches from Emacs or keep them separate? RW I'll be happy to take patches from anybody, if they help to fix bugs RW in the code or to

BBDB ELPA-style packaging (was: ChangeLog 2010-12-15)

2010-12-17 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:08:02 -0600 Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org wrote: RW On Thu Dec 16 2010 Ted Zlatanov wrote: Roland, thank you for your work. I'd like to package your version of BBDB as `bbdb3' and put it in the Emacs GNU ELPA package repository. I'd like to call it `bbdb3' because