Re: BBDB and Gnus

[Leonidas Tsampros <ltsampros@upnet.gr>]

"Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org> writes:
> I thought I want to write this email to the Gnus (and BBDB) mailing
> list to announce more formally to the Gnus developpers that recently
> BBDB has gone through a major re-write with the ultimate goal to
> make the new BBDB v3 part of GNU Emacs.
>
> I believe that Gnus is one of the emacs packages that interfaces
> with BBDB in a more sophisticated way. It would be great if Gnus
> could be updated to work (also) with BBDB v3. During the re-write of
> BBDB, various functions have changed their names and calling
> sequences. This has made the new code more clean, powerful, and
> up-to-date. Yet making BBDB v3 work with Gnus will require some
> attention. (It is an item on the todo list for BBDB v3 to provide a
> more complete list of how things have changed from BBDB v2 to v3.
> This should facilitate the update for Gnus.)
>
> Currently BBDB v3 is in an alpha stage. While I'd like to declare
> soon that it has reached a beta stage, it was probably good if
> already now someone familiar with Gnus' interface to BBDB could take
> a look into this so that we could try to make sure that the new BBDB
> can work with Gnus as smoothly as possible. (Various add-ons for
> BBDB v2 had to go through some pain to work as intended by advicing
> BBDB functions and things like that. With BBDB v3 I tried to clean
> up and simplify these things; and various add-ons for BBDB v2 are
> already incorporated into v3 in one or the other way. It would
> probably be good if the needs of Gnus could be incorporated into the
> new BBDB before we declare that BBDB v3 has reached a beta stage.)
>
> Roland

Hi Roland,

bbdb certainly needed some love. Thanks for pursuing this further.

FYI, if there are 'API' changes in your bbdb package, eudc-bbdb.el (in
emacs) might/will need changes too.

I would love to see bbdb as part of ELPA, if not in emacs directly.

Best Regards
Leonidas Tsampros