Re: BBDB V3 export

2012-03-13 Thread Sriram ET.
2012/3/13 Ted Zlatanov With CouchDB, I can easily export individual records from JSON back to > the BBDB vector format. I'll do similar work for file and other > backends. I'll make it possible to use LDAP and SQLite but I wouldn't > use them, personally. LDAP requires a very specific infrastr

Re: BBDB V3 export

2012-03-13 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:49:32 +0530 "Sriram ET." wrote: SE> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Brett Presnell wrote: SE> Just FYI, back in October 2011 Ted Zlatanov wrote on >> this list: >> >> > I put together some code that uses CouchDB to store Gnus group >> > subscriptions and marks in gnus

Re: BBDB V3 export

2012-03-12 Thread Sriram ET.
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Brett Presnell wrote: Just FYI, back in October 2011 Ted Zlatanov wrote on > this list: > > > I put together some code that uses CouchDB to store Gnus group > > subscriptions and marks in gnus-sync.el. It works well; so well in > > fact that I'm considering doin

Re: BBDB V3 export

2012-03-11 Thread Brett Presnell
Philipp Haselwarter writes: > > Personally this is the feature I miss most in BBDB. Searching my phone > contacts to type in information manually into BBDB is just annoying. > > What kind of work would be required (in bbdb itself, on the protocol > level, glue code) to make syncing with a CardDAV

Re: BBDB V3 export

2012-03-11 Thread Philipp Haselwarter
On Tue, Mar 06 2012 23:42 (@1331073757), Roland Winkler wrote: > On Tue Mar 6 2012 Sam Steingold wrote: >> The correct term is not `export'. >> The correct term is `sync'. >> Once you have thousands records in your phone contacts and bbdb, >> exporting/importing is a waste of time: you will need t

Re: BBDB V3 export

2012-03-06 Thread markd
Hi Sam, Sam Steingold writes: > The correct term is not `export'. The correct term is `sync'. Yes, what one really wants is sync. However, it's a non-trivial problem. > Once you > have thousands records in your phone contacts and bbdb, exporting/importing > is a waste of time: you will nee

Re: BBDB V3 export

2012-03-06 Thread Roland Winkler
On Tue Mar 6 2012 Sam Steingold wrote: > The correct term is not `export'. > The correct term is `sync'. > Once you have thousands records in your phone contacts and bbdb, > exporting/importing is a waste of time: you will need to sync/merge the > records by hand and it is unfeasible. > > Somehow

Re: BBDB V3 export

2012-03-06 Thread Sam Steingold
The correct term is not `export'. The correct term is `sync'. Once you have thousands records in your phone contacts and bbdb, exporting/importing is a waste of time: you will need to sync/merge the records by hand and it is unfeasible. Somehow gmail manages to sync its contacts with android. We n

Re: BBDB V3 export

2012-03-05 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
On Tue, Mar 06 2012, ma...@kermodei.com wrote: > Is anyone working on or through about export support for BBDB > V3? My particular need is for Google export, however I suspect > iPhone users may also need this. > > For V2, I use the unofficial bbdb-to-outlook package to create a > CSV for import