From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78831 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leonidas Tsampros Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.emacs.bbdb.user Subject: Re: BBDB and Gnus Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 13:49:16 +0300 Message-ID: <874o4uex8z.fsf@bifteki.lan> References: <19919.65015.10817.53263@gargle.gargle.HOWL> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1305543209 15101 80.91.229.12 (16 May 2011 10:53:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 10:53:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net To: "Roland Winkler" Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27131@lists.math.uh.edu Mon May 16 12:53:24 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QLvQQ-00038l-Nx for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 16 May 2011 12:53:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QLvPR-0002qN-5l; Mon, 16 May 2011 05:52:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QLvPP-0002qC-ID for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 16 May 2011 05:52:19 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QLvPN-0007WZ-D0 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 16 May 2011 05:52:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pz0-f44.google.com ([209.85.210.44]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QLvPL-0005Vm-Bb for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 16 May 2011 12:52:15 +0200 Original-Received: by pzk5 with SMTP id 5so3311452pzk.17 for ; Mon, 16 May 2011 03:52:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date :in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=MCItPGio3pZzgBVKHY3XGAD/MeApqETTtIrRr9nyaxI=; b=r77ST3+3Xn58EJLjWXASqPEOjE1bzgHoNV45srBd3Hbi8wVrNapBW0PWhfsOACB+5j Z7H4QnZFNQQH9Z6BBoAe00dNMdlvd3xjAF54lnltDj4p8KvEimpJEo5RPWq7KR8z6qN1 yEESrdwdlN6ZXNqB3l4tMu84ek6bN6eusSd/c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=ErN53+mXYV9yqGiGdq3+CjUWVz9x4BbqqxzF+FXvQTxILicL8yU2vSDGhyx4jfW2yP tLehJ/P2l1hfyJcicfM8SNkyK1ncPdKLH1AOFrPLHe5etofoaoh+sXTYsAaneTGN7rej +S6MohEqN4AWa7tA6jk7Xlya9mBKJunWN62YI= Original-Received: by 10.68.28.133 with SMTP id b5mr6783552pbh.264.1305543128726; Mon, 16 May 2011 03:52:08 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from bifteki.lan ([212.205.26.1]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y5sm3210540pbb.99.2011.05.16.03.52.04 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 16 May 2011 03:52:06 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from ltsampros-ferrari-one-200 (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bifteki.lan (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89CA864A1D1; Mon, 16 May 2011 13:49:16 +0300 (EEST) In-Reply-To: <19919.65015.10817.53263@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (Roland Winkler's message of "Sun, 15 May 2011 11:23:19 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78831 gmane.emacs.bbdb.user:2735 Archived-At: "Roland Winkler" 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